ZZzzZzzz I'm so bored of this article and I'm so bored of this author picking out extremely specific arguments about how things aren't
exactly perfect for
exactly his need, but moreso than anything I'm so bored of this culture of takedown posts being taken super seriously just because they're takedown posts, articles that are thirty pages long when they could be three or four, and the back-and-forth with cartoon characters blog posts.
> I've been suffering Go's idiosyncracies in relative silence for too long, there's a few things I really need to get off my chest.
this notion that because someone designed a tool in a way that is not exactly the way you wanted it to be is a form of suffering is ridiculous. You're not suffering, you are at best mildly inconvenienced.
> Most of Go's APIs (much like NodeJS's APIs) are designed for Unix-like operating systems.
This whole angle of attack is frankly absurd. Go's APIs (and the APIs of countless other ecosystems) are Unix-like because the Unix-like ecosystem is structured around interoperability. The reason that Go's APIs for dealing with Windows aren't as good as for other systems is that Microsoft has at every turn made their environments subtly different from other things often for no good reason at all.
This whole thing with making a file path with arbitrary byte strings that aren't representable in utf-8 is frankly embarassing. He's spinning a yarn about filesystem APIs and then goes on a tangent about string handling and how great it is that Rust displays one thing and Go displays another, but here's the rub: he used the `%s` format string operator, whose entire function is to print the uninterpreted bytes; if you want to print something quoted in a string-safe manner, you use `%q`. That entire section can be summarized in three lines of code:
s := "\xbd\xb2\x3d\xbc\x20\xe2\x8c\x98"
fmt.Printf("Hello, %s\n", s)
fmt.Printf("Hello, %q\n", s)
https://go.dev/play/p/NVbLMhb7UkVHis examples are always like this: long, convoluted, and so complicated that people who know what's going on don't bother to interject because it's an impossibly tedious waste of time.