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throwaway894345last Tuesday at 8:02 PM1 replyview on HN

No, this is not an example of survivorship bias. Here's the wiki link for your reference. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias


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pixl97last Tuesday at 8:13 PM

No this is an example of survivorship bias.

Let's say Go has such bad error handling that it becomes the number one reason people don't use it.

The people left that do use it will be the ones that don't care about error handling. Hence you're asking the people that don't care versus 90% of the audience you've already lost.

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