I Love Go; I Hate Go

#1

Post by tominous » Tue, Aug 02, 2016, 5:52 AM UTC

Re: I Love Go; I Hate Go

#2

Post by simplehuman » Tue, Aug 02, 2016, 6:04 AM UTC

Honest question: How does a post with just 4 points and posted 11 minutes ago get to be on the front page? Even amazing it is number 2 right now.

Re: I Love Go; I Hate Go

#3

Post by anilgulecha » Tue, Aug 02, 2016, 6:10 AM UTC

simplehuman wrote: post #2

Honest question: How does a post with just 4 points and posted 11 minutes ago get to be on the front page? Even amazing it is number 2 right now.

Probably because the author is a renowned engineer (dtrace, etc)

Re: I Love Go; I Hate Go

#4

Post by simplehuman » Tue, Aug 02, 2016, 6:13 AM UTC

anilgulecha wrote: post #3

simplehuman wrote: post #2

Honest question: How does a post with just 4 points and posted 11 minutes ago get to be on the front page? Even amazing it is number 2 right now.

Probably because the author is a renowned engineer (dtrace, etc)

So the whole voting system is artificially skewed by HN admins?

Re: I Love Go; I Hate Go

#5

Post by jefozabuss » Tue, Aug 02, 2016, 6:14 AM UTC

Cached version in case of 503: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:VcehlYQ...

Re: I Love Go; I Hate Go

#6

Post by bubersson » Tue, Aug 02, 2016, 6:16 AM UTC

I agree and disagree with the post title.

Re: I Love Go; I Hate Go

#7

Post by nzjrs » Tue, Aug 02, 2016, 6:17 AM UTC

simplehuman wrote: post #4

anilgulecha wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably because the author is a renowned engineer (dtrace, etc)

So the whole voting system is artificially skewed by HN admins?

You must be new here

Re: I Love Go; I Hate Go

#8

Post by paradite » Tue, Aug 02, 2016, 6:17 AM UTC

simplehuman wrote: post #2

Honest question: How does a post with just 4 points and posted 11 minutes ago get to be on the front page? Even amazing it is number 2 right now.

The rate of growth of the upvotes w.r.t time is extremely high for this submission. 0.5(just now) to 1(now) upvote per minute.

Re: I Love Go; I Hate Go

#9

Post by andrewfromx » Tue, Aug 02, 2016, 6:18 AM UTC

Here's a way to love go, write a language in it https://github.com/grubby/grubby

Re: I Love Go; I Hate Go

#10

Post by _skel » Tue, Aug 02, 2016, 6:20 AM UTC

The most frustrating thing for me, by far, is that Go won't let you import unused packages. When you are commenting stuff out to debug a program, or adding debug statements and removing them later, it constantly requires you to go back to the top of the file and comment out the unused libraries, only to uncomment them later when you've solved your problem.

The fact that there is not a compiler flag to disable this behavior, and that the core team is opposed to adding such a flag (https://golang.org/doc/faq#unused_variables_and_imports), is simply ridiculous and makes programming in Go a real pain in the ass.

I can't think of any other language that does this.