Why Go gets criticized so much
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Re: Why Go gets criticized so much
#2Offtopic: Can we please use "GoLang" for the language, so we can use "Go" unambiguously for the game?
Especially in titles, where there is little context.
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#3Note: This is from Oct '14
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#4Offtopic: Can we please use "GoLang" for the language, so we can use "Go" unambiguously for the game? Especially in titles, where there is little context.
For the game we should use "Go/Baduk" or something like that.
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#5Good points, and also correct answer. Identity is hard to question. But when you try Go without prejudice, it's just fun (and productive) afterwards.
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#6Offtopic: Can we please use "GoLang" for the language, so we can use "Go" unambiguously for the game? Especially in titles, where there is little context.
i would argue that for most people here Go = GoLang
i had never heard of the go game, before the ai go thing
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#7I don't hate Go. I do strongly dislike posts with clickbaity titles that have an admission the title is wrong in the very first sentence.
The rest of the article is little better. It can be summed up in one line: People who dislike Go are upset because they incorporated their favourite programming language into their identity, and the success of Go challenges their own choices.
Although I don't hate Go, I also don't like Go much, but it's not because it challenges my identity. I am not a Haskell or Scala programmer. I've used a whole bunch of languages in recent years, none of which are especially clever. I dislike Go because I agree with the criticisms of it and I'm afraid I might end up having to maintain code written in it one day. That wouldn't be much fun.
Fortunately, so far I've been able to avoid maintaining PHP or COBOL so hopefully my luck will hold and I'll be able to dodge Go too.
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#8Offtopic: Can we please use "GoLang" for the language, so we can use "Go" unambiguously for the game? Especially in titles, where there is little context.
I do find the name extremely unfortunate. It's impossible to search for, as "go" is an extremely common word (bad for search engines) and substring (bad for ctrl-F find). I tried searching for shared web hosts that provide Go support and just gave up. Kind of hilarious to see a first-party Google language be impossible to search for.
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#9>Obviously, not everyone hates Go.
Well, at least the author saves me the time reading the rest of the article.
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#10ML is also simple, pragmatic and from the '70s.