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Comment by nonethewiser

This is kind of the opposite of Go. Not giving people what they are asking for.

There are pros and cons of course. You don't have 17 different ways to iterate over an array, so that's nice. But you also went 13 years without generics, despite them being one of the most requested features, because the designers didn't want that complexity inside Go.

Overall I think Go is better for this philosophy but there are times where the language is clearly written more for its maintainers than it's users.

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