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> they literally invented a new programming language (Go) to address the compile time and runtime limitations of Java.

And then ironically they then use a complex and runtime-heavy Java-based CI/CD to manage the compilation of their Go codebase.

Go is great though, best bit is how its so useable for web-stuff out of the box. Unlike Rust where you have to spend half your life either re-inventing the wheel or choosing which of hundreds of crates you want to use to do stuff that should be part of stdlib.



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