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The more I work with async in JS, Rust, and Python the more I appreciate Go's colorless functions. It's a bit derpy but it works.

Building /frametown. Amusement, wonder, and uncertainty ✴︎ libred.org


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The one thing that puts me off from using Go is lack of functional programming primitives (map, filter, and reduce) which are available in many other languages. These operations are extremely useful, significantly reduce lines of code, and are easy to understand.

On the flip side, what I absolutely love about Go is the single binary output and the fast compilation times