alt Hacker NewsIt is worse than that, as Go initially lacked generics (introduced by CLU and ML in 1976), still doesn't do even basic Pascal enumerations (1970) rather the iota/const dance, let alone the 1990's programming language design surface.
I only advocate for it on the scenarios where a garbage collected C is more than enough, regardless of the anti-GC naysayers, e.g. see TamaGo Unikernel.
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> still doesn't do even basic Pascal enumerations
The term you are looking for is sum types (albeit in a gimped form in the case of Pascal). Enumerations refer to the value applied to the type, quite literally, and is identical in Pascal as every other language with enumerations, including Go. There is only so much you can do with what is little more than a counter.
So every language have to implement every features released in the last 50 years?
> Go initially lacked generics
And even though it has them now, the generics syntax is pretty clunky IMO.