Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang
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Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang
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Re: Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang
#2What's up with the anti-Golang shitposts lately? I liked fasterthanlime better when he didn't just sound like a card-carrying Rust zealot. This isn't even about the practicalities of his argument really; optics matter, and it's especially bad since the Rust community used to be known for its politeness and always being fair to other language communities.
Re: Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang
#3What's up with the anti-Golang shitposts lately? I liked fasterthanlime better when he didn't just sound like a card-carrying Rust zealot. This isn't even about the practicalities of his argument really; optics matter, and it's especially bad since the Rust community used to be known for its politeness and always being fair to other language communities.
Just a small reminder: fasterthanlime is not the Rust community
Re: Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang
#4how boring? Don't wanna use Go? Use something else. What's the point?
Invest your time on questioning your knowledge and improving it instead of this.
Re: Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang
#5What's up with the anti-Golang shitposts lately? I liked fasterthanlime better when he didn't just sound like a card-carrying Rust zealot. This isn't even about the practicalities of his argument really; optics matter, and it's especially bad since the Rust community used to be known for its politeness and always being fair to other language communities.
The last time his "I want off" article was reposted[0], the comments were pretty rough, ranging from ad-hom attacks to (at best) misunderstandings of the arguments he was making.
I see this article being an address to these criticisms (which are not limited to this forum, I've seen similar arguments on twitter, etc.).
Pointing out shortcomings isn't really impolite or unfair. The author specifically mentioned shortcomings of Rust as well.
Re: Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang
#6couldn't agree more!
Re: Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang
#7What's up with the anti-Golang shitposts lately? I liked fasterthanlime better when he didn't just sound like a card-carrying Rust zealot. This isn't even about the practicalities of his argument really; optics matter, and it's especially bad since the Rust community used to be known for its politeness and always being fair to other language communities.
> the Rust community used to be known for its politeness and always being fair to other language communities
I have no particular affinity for Go or Rust. As an outsider this is not how I’ve ever perceived the Rust community, because the most present and visible parts of the Rust community were people showing up and complaining that Project X didn’t use their preferred silver bullet
Re: Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang
#8What's up with the anti-Golang shitposts lately? I liked fasterthanlime better when he didn't just sound like a card-carrying Rust zealot. This isn't even about the practicalities of his argument really; optics matter, and it's especially bad since the Rust community used to be known for its politeness and always being fair to other language communities.
From the outside the Rust community seems so defensive about Go that it makes me very reluctant to dive deeper into Rust.
Re: Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang
#9> Go's confusion between "type aliases" and "newtypes". The only way to make a newtype in go is to make a separate package with an opaque type and use interfaces for indirection, which is costly and awkward.
It's very unclear what this is supposed to mean. 'type Foo int' in Go creates a new 'Foo' type that can't be used as an int without casting (a̶l̶t̶h̶o̶u̶g̶h̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶c̶a̶n̶ ̶a̶s̶s̶i̶g̶n̶ ̶a̶n̶ ̶i̶n̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶i̶t̶). If you don't want to allow that, you can just wrap it in a single member struct.
Re: Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang
#10Oh no, here we go again. So you don't like Go (no idea what this "golang" thing is everybody keeps talking about)? That's cool! You don't have to write yet another blog post saying that you really, really don't like it, with more strawman arguments and again quoting that quoted-to-death quote by Rob Pike about Go being designed for stupid developers, we got you the first time!