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 How do you compare vlang against go? 
 vlang has a stupid mutability thing like rust, which is a total waste of time because most of the time you need mutability and making that necessary to specify all the time is retarded

the thing i liked about it was they made it a simpler syntax and so it compiles a lot faster than rust

i just don't see any reason to bother with any other language... in 2018 i became a #golang maxi and like how i became a #bitcoin maxi in 2021 it's a one way change, i chafe at even having to include other languages in my project at all

there just is no reason for it, and the irritation at all the other bullshit of other languages, the compile times, the syntax ambiguity, the ugly appearance, retarded idiom, whatever else... i'm impatient and i just don't see why i should wait when i don't have to

when i compile Go code it runs under 2 seconds later, every time except the very first for a big codebase, then maybe i wait 10 seconds

no other language has optimized for this kind of ergonomics