>>barson+Z3
It's almost as if, like most people who write articles complaining about Go's lack of "expressiveness" and generics, he took a cursory look at the language, wrote some naive examples that supported his point, and squeezed out a blog post.
>>jff+o4
If the code was equivalent you might have a point. Unfortunately it is not (tokenizing/line scanning vs. copying). One has a shortcut in Go, the other does not.
Would you say that Go is not excessively verbose in non-trivial use cases ? I recently had to sort a struct list in a program. Added lines of code for sorting a single list once : 30. What the ...