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		erokar on Sept 10, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: From Python to Go: migrating our entire API Damning with faint praise. Often, you don't need to know what's going on under the hood, and often it's not very interesting.

marcosdumay on Sept 10, 2015 [–]

To tell the truth, Python is an easy target here, but I doubt 99.9% of the projects in C or C++ care to manage memory as closely as GHC does under the hood. (The same way as they don't manage concurrency.)

Some times, it's even better not to look.

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