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dwatttttyesterday at 11:04 PM1 replyview on HN

Are we referring to 'go fix' as after market tooling?

It's certainly done in many places. JsDoc is the biggest example I can think of. But they're all walking the line of "this doesn't have an impact, except when it does".

It being done by the language owners just makes them the ones walking the line.


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tptacekyesterday at 11:06 PM

That's exactly how this works: it doesn't have an impact, except when you ask it to. This is an idiomatic approach to this problem.

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