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Bystander here, neither upvoted nor downvoted you, but I think one reason for the skepticism is that people have hard the "It shouldn't be hard to implement X in language Y..." refrain many times before, and until somebody actually does implement X in Y, it means nothing. "It shouldn't be hard to make Python at least as fast as V8." "It shouldn't be hard to implement static typing on top of Python 3 function annotations." "It shouldn't be hard to add lambdas to Java [well, they finally did with Java 8...which we still can't use on Android]".

If it's actually not that hard, go implement a checker for Go that does check that statically-allocated rvalues are never used again, and post it here. You'll probably shoot to the top of Hacker News, it'd be a nice open-source project for the resume, and it'd provide a very useful tool for the Go community.




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