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Are… you sure? Go has some of the best documentation. You can learn Go in one sitting with its tutorial. Not exactly sure I agree with you there.
> limited language features
This is where people lose me.
> Workspaces make it easy to work on multiple modules simultaneously, which is most helpful when you are maintaining a set of related modules with module dependencies between them. It's a somewhat uneasy feeling to see how the "solution/projects" (in Visual Studio terms) hierarchy keeps getting reinvented in every. single. bloody. ecosystem, even in non-PL ones. Surely there must be a better way to organize things?
The modules in a workspace may have entirely different ownership. For instance, let's say you're using a WebRTC library to run a selective forwarding unit as part of your video conferencing app. Maybe you notice a bug in the WebRTC library. You can check out the code for the WebRTC library and add it to your workspace so you can test your application against your local WebRTC library changes.
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I've been coding professionally in Go and have recently switched largely to Rust. I feel Go is designed for junior developers: it's easy to get started, like with Python, but comes at the cost of verbosity and lack of expressiveness. E.g., you'll have to live with "if err != nil" all over the place. It's good for orgs though because code written by different people looks the same and readable. Most importantly, it's…
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I've been coding professionally in Go and have recently switched largely to Rust. I feel Go is designed for junior developers: it's easy to get started, like with Python, but comes at the cost of verbosity and lack of expressiveness. E.g., you'll have to live with "if err != nil" all over the place. It's good for orgs though because code written by different people looks the same and readable. Most importantly, it's…
> Rust IMO is much more advanced and expressive. It's a joy to write
It can be argued that in a professional setting, this isn't what a business cares about. Businesses care about getting stuff done, not whether you like to write your code and your language is "expressive". They want boring. Boring is good.
> Workspaces make it easy to work on multiple modules simultaneously, which is most helpful when you are maintaining a set of related modules with module dependencies between them. It's a somewhat uneasy feeling to see how the "solution/projects" (in Visual Studio terms) hierarchy keeps getting reinvented in every. single. bloody. ecosystem, even in non-PL ones. Surely there must be a better way to organize things?
Go workspaces are amazing. You create a go.work file, add a line with each module you're working on, and then the Go language server handles the rest. Solutions and projects seem way more complicated, but also not entirely congruent. A Go workspace is used when you have two modules that depend on each other and you want to work on both concurrently. The two modules are still independent and could be worked on individ…
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I honestly have no idea why so many hate the language but I guess the Bjarne Stroustrup rule applies. For me it's a language I always wanted to have: essentially C with a GC, small enough you can carry it in your head with most of the footguns removed. I honestly also have no idea why Rust always makes an appearance in a Go thread, I can't think of two languages with such a diametrically opposite learning complexity.
> I honestly also have no idea why Rust always makes an appearance in a Go thread
Both Rust and Go people are very vocal about their languages.
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I've been coding professionally in Go and have recently switched largely to Rust. I feel Go is designed for junior developers: it's easy to get started, like with Python, but comes at the cost of verbosity and lack of expressiveness. E.g., you'll have to live with "if err != nil" all over the place. It's good for orgs though because code written by different people looks the same and readable. Most importantly, it's…
What is it with people who love Rust? If a language is not an absolute behemoth, it's a kid's language. Do you feel the same way about Lua? Like, this notion is wild to me. > Rust IMO is much more advanced and expressive. It's a joy to write It can be argued that in a professional setting, this isn't what a business cares about. Businesses care about getting stuff done, not whether you like to write your code and you…
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> Lack of docs, broken and confusing functionality, limited language features, bizarre operations. You are painting with a pretty broad brush, can you provide a concrete example of these?
if (cond) {
return x
} else {
return y
}
if (cond) { return x }
else { return y }