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> it would make many things in the language easier to express

Like what?

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Like IPv6 addresses, UUIDs, the list goes on. Does it mean anything that Go themselves had to invent a custom uint128 type in the standard library because they didn't want to add it to the language? There's a very long list of instances of them stonewalling it here: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/9455
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