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> reasoned criticisms from the Erlang camp about Go not copying some bits and pieces from Erlang that might have been worthwhile that are worth reading.

would you mind pointing those out please ? thank you !



https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=Erlang+Go has a few. HN user "jerf" has a few good ones here and there:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5451651

There are others if you look for them.

My hope is that Go continues to improve in this direction as it seems like a good language.


thank you ! spent the last 45 minutes just reading the posts by 'jerf', and as he most humbly points out:

Go advocates desperately, desperately need to avoid the temptation to explain to themselves why Erlang isn't as good, because then they'll fail to learn the lessons that Erlang learned the easy way. There's a lot of ways to improve on Erlang, but let me tell you that despite those opportunities, Erlang as a language is one of the wisest languages around, you do not want to try to exceed it by starting from scratch. Learn from it, please, I want a better Erlang than Erlang, but talking yourself into how Go is already better than Erlang isn't going to get you there.




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