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Is Go evolving in the wrong direction?

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

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Critiquing Language Emphasis in Computer Science

The chapter delves into Leslie Lamport's critique of the focus on language in computer science, highlighting the issue of programmers being language experts but unable to write correct programs. It discusses the importance of starting from the correct point in software development and teaching engineers to deeply think about the problems they are solving. The conversation also touches on Rust's features and concerns about its usage as a replacement for C, emphasizing the necessity of enhancing human thinking in software development.

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