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		daghamm 12 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Go is my hammer, and everything is a nail How can you call Go hype driven? It was literally designed to be "boring".

cy_hauser 12 months ago [–]

I think it was the Go Marketing Team who decided to call it a boring language. "Boring" tested well for hyping the language.

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