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		sheepmullet on March 25, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “Go’s design is a disservice to intelligent progra... Nonsense. On moderate-large codebases Go is not 5x more expressive/succinct than Java. Maybe 1.5x if you are lucky.

MetaCosm on March 26, 2015 [–]

Please point me to the large codebase your ported from Java to Go -- if you don't have actual data, just two people making up idiotic numbers let me get involved.

Go is 185175% better than Java and 8165% better than Haskell -- or making up numbers just makes us all look like goddamn idiots.

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