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Any truly dramatic developments are likely years away, but it's notable that they're even on the horizon.

s := make([][]bool, h)
    for i := range s {
        s[i] = make([]bool, w)

James Iry[^] Quote:

1970 - Niklaus Wirth creates Pascal, a procedural language. Critics immediately denounce Pascal because it uses "x := x + y" syntax instead of the more familiar C-like "x = x + y". This criticism happens in spite of the fact that C has not yet been invented.

name := "John"

var name string
name = "John"

Jeremy Falcon wrote:

Is just syntactic sugar for...

Jeremy Falcon wrote:

It's a declaration operator, it might look like one but that's only because you can initialize a variable while declaring it.

Kent Sharkey wrote:

If you don't, it will be double