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>I'm largely ignorant of the details of go other than its original positioning

It is a faster python with a very primitive type system tacked on. I don't know how they ended up there from their original idea of a systems language, but they did.



> It is a faster python with a very primitive type system tacked on.

And concurrency primitives in the core language. (In a properly designed language, these could have been made part of the standard library, though.)

And worse error-handling facilities than the original Python.




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