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omoikaneyesterday at 11:18 PM0 repliesview on HN

In the listed examples, the compiler will emit a diagnostic upon encountering those comments:

https://go.dev/blog/inliner#example-fixing-api-design-flaws

So these comments carry more weight than how those comment annotations might be consumed by optional tools for other languages.

For most of the listed examples, I think the corresponding C annotation would have been "[[deprecated]]", which has been added to the syntax as of C23.