Yeah I was a bit surprised by this too. I think the post was written around 10 years ago, when it still was a genuine problem in Go.
replyGood eye. This is why HN titles have year tags. :-)
replyYeah, this is from 2016. I don't think choosing C over C++ was defensible even back then, but the critique of Go makes more sense now.
https://web.archive.org/web/20160109171250/http://jonathanwh...