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Is it really fair to say a language is stagnating if it does not re-invent itself every ten years to match whatever language features are popular at the time?

> How do you decide when the time is right?

When people are migrating away from Go because of the error handling.

> maybe one day a unified opinion from the masses will coalesce?

Maybe. What is the alternative? If there are five alternative error handling proposals each with support from 20% of users, should they pick one at random and upset 80% no matter what?



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