• Ethan@programming.dev
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    7 months ago

    After programming in Go for nearly a decade, the idea of going back to needing semicolons brings me pain. Rust seems cool, but semicolons 🤢

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      7 months ago

      As you can see, rust allows you to not put semicolons at the end of code blocks. The presence of semicolons is not a language killer. It’s a very hard language, but its worth it.

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        7 months ago

        I agree. Semicolons are a small “tradeoff” (personally not for me) for such a great language.

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        7 months ago

        The presence of semicolons is not a language killer.

        I’m not saying it is. But every time I have to work in a language that requires semicolons I’m constantly forgetting them and constantly reminded of how nice it is to not have to care in Go.