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The tiny twitch which wretch

BLOG ARTICLE Published on April 4, 2026

Written by George Shuklin

Source: DEV Community - Linux 1 min read intermediate

Summary

Is Go a good language? (a can of worms opens and closes). No, I mean, for the end-user? It turned out that there is one stupid thing which was done odd at argument parsing which makes Go a 'snowflake' language. Single-dashed arguments. I presume there were some arguments from developers to allow back single-dash long args (-hello) instead of double-dash ones (--hello), but it's just made it... special. In a bad way. We accept tar madness (tar vxzf) out of grand-dad respect, and the same fo...

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