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		pjmlp on May 24, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Trying out this Go thing at Disqus I would say, it is developers that: - started coding after Java and .NET became mainstream - only know C and C++ as compiled languages, never tried anything else (e.g. Modula-2, Delphi, Haskell, ...) - lack CS background So they think any language with stronger type system than C or C++ can only be provided via a VM based runtime.

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