From := to :=: How Go Brought Me Back to My Pascal and Delphi Days

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From := to :=: How Go Brought Me Back to My Pascal and Delphi Days

March 31, 2026

It happened on a Tuesday. I was writing a small microservice in Go, nothing fancy, just an API endpoint that fetched some data from a database. My fingers were moving automatically, muscle memory doing its thing, when I typed:


nombre := "Peace"

I stopped. My hands hovered over the keyboard. I stared at the screen for a good five seconds.

I hadn’t seen that operator since college. Since the days of floppy disks, blue screens with white text, and a professor who insisted that Pascal was “the language of the future.” That was twenty-something years ago.

And here it was again, staring back at me.

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