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Eleven Years of Go

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Re: Eleven Years of Go

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I had different opinion than guy who joined the Go team in 2019 (Ian Lance Taylor). I was banned from their github repo, my AdSense sites were removed from Google's index, my AdSense CPC dropped by 2/3. My github account was "flagged" aka disabled from being seen in public. I was on github for 7 years. I received nonsensical "not in accordance to policies" messages from AdSense all of a sudden when that happened aka…

Do you have a link to the comment thread where you "had a different opinion"?

Re: Eleven Years of Go

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post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've not had a good experience with them either. I was contributed a bug fix to the std lib which would've been a decent feather in my cap. Not even a thanks; some maintainer copied, pasted, made a few changes, merged "his" fix. 2014 iirc; extinguished my interest.

Any commits we can refer to, so we can expose this situation for potential contributors?

Archaeology. (~2014, couldn't be bothered.)

Re: Eleven Years of Go

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post #3

I had different opinion than guy who joined the Go team in 2019 (Ian Lance Taylor). I was banned from their github repo, my AdSense sites were removed from Google's index, my AdSense CPC dropped by 2/3. My github account was "flagged" aka disabled from being seen in public. I was on github for 7 years. I received nonsensical "not in accordance to policies" messages from AdSense all of a sudden when that happened aka…

I'm sorry for the circumstances.

I just want to note one thing: any large community will have aspect (sometimes many) that many people will not like. That's not personal, it's just statistics. And when someone (Go team, Stack overflow a few years back, ...) appears heavy-handed, try to imagine to herd hundred-thousand creative, intelligent spirits - that's an impossible task. If you complain about the font (and others did, too) than either ask yourself, whether the stress of conflict is worth it - or leave the matter - or the community - for good.

Re: Eleven Years of Go

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I have really been enjoying Go, except for the built-in templating library. It's a wart on the standard library IMO.

The template declaration and invocation hierarchy seems unnecessarily complex and is almost 100% undocumented. It just hurts my brain and doesn't make any sense to me in comparison to jinja, whatever jekyll uses, etc.

It has very very poor documentation. Some docstrings are not a replacement for actual documentation when your approach is that unorthodox.

And it doesn't produce any error messages or warnings when you do something wrong - just renders a completely blank template.

EDIT: to be clear, my beef is with the template hierarchy, poor docs, and lack of errors/warnings, not with the general capabilities of the library, which are quite complete.

Re: Eleven Years of Go

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post #3

I had different opinion than guy who joined the Go team in 2019 (Ian Lance Taylor). I was banned from their github repo, my AdSense sites were removed from Google's index, my AdSense CPC dropped by 2/3. My github account was "flagged" aka disabled from being seen in public. I was on github for 7 years. I received nonsensical "not in accordance to policies" messages from AdSense all of a sudden when that happened aka…

> guy who joined the Go team in 2019 (Ian Lance Taylor)

I'm pretty sure that Ian has been part of the Go team since before the public release in 2009. He's the most patient person I have ever seen in my entire life.

edit: He joined mid 2008 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqKOY_pH8u0&t=1m19s

Re: Eleven Years of Go

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post #3

I had different opinion than guy who joined the Go team in 2019 (Ian Lance Taylor). I was banned from their github repo, my AdSense sites were removed from Google's index, my AdSense CPC dropped by 2/3. My github account was "flagged" aka disabled from being seen in public. I was on github for 7 years. I received nonsensical "not in accordance to policies" messages from AdSense all of a sudden when that happened aka…

Ian Lance Taylor has been nothing but tirelessly patient and helpful when interacting with the community from what I've seen. This story doesn't pass muster without more details, least of all because you seem to think Ian joined Go in 2019.

Re: Eleven Years of Go

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I have really been enjoying Go, except for the built-in templating library. It's a wart on the standard library IMO. The template declaration and invocation hierarchy seems unnecessarily complex and is almost 100% undocumented. It just hurts my brain and doesn't make any sense to me in comparison to jinja, whatever jekyll uses, etc. It has very very poor documentation. Some docstrings are not a replacement for actual…

Agreed about the template hierarchy being a bit weird, but the HTML template escaping is amazing. Much smarter and more secure than Jinja, etc.

Re: Eleven Years of Go

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Generics Update: "We will be working on that throughout 2021, with a goal of having something for people to try out by the end of the year, perhaps a part of the Go 1.18 betas."

This is what I want to see: taking time to make large engineering decisions conservatively. A lot of vendors, the first thing you hear is it being dumped on you instantly followed by the realisation that it was designed by a closed team in isolation with no user feedback involved and subsequently it turned out to be crap or a complete impedance mismatch for the real world.

Re: Eleven Years of Go

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Archaeology. (~2014, couldn't be bothered.)

Downvoting the way I prioritise my time? Good lord.

It's more likely to be downvoting an unsubstantiated allegation of plagiarism which, in the circumstances, could easily be argued with public evidence.
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