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Re: Rob Pike interview

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, May 06, 2020, 4:49 AM UTC

zerpelin68 wrote: post #209

5cott0 wrote: post #149

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> a language designed to be opaque to casual examination Is this really the case? I thought the prevailing wisdom is that Go was designed to be as simple as possible so newbs can pick it up faster. I find Go to be quite easy to read and follow along with even though I've never written a line of it. Rust on the other hand...

opaque to casual examination means that you simply cannot read the code. You would think that a statically compiled binary blob wouldn't be handled as if it was a perl script, but it is.

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Re: Rob Pike interview

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Post by BookHeretykow » Wed, May 06, 2020, 6:22 PM UTC

seph-reed wrote: post #67

zozbot234 wrote: post #40

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> When I tried this in Go, every time I wanted to change the shape of my code to try doing things slightly differently I had to do a lot of work to get the code to compile again. Ha. Try Rust if you like a challenge: at least you will get outstanding compiler diagnostics while refactoring, and far better performance as an end result.

I love Rust like I love Dark Souls. It's difficult, but fair. I can not praise enough the software developers that realize proper errors are vastly superior to extensive docs.

Fine taste in language and games

Re: Rob Pike interview

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Post by lostmsu » Mon, May 11, 2020, 6:38 AM UTC

tapirl wrote: post #236

lostmsu wrote: post #172

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Not sure what you mean by "open source side" of the cloud space. PostgreSQL is still C, and Mongo is still C++ + Node.js.

The two don't belong to "cloud infrastructure".

The conversation is about "cloud space".

Also, by restricting to open source you dropped 2 biggest and successful players.