``Go is not meant to innovate programming theory. It’s meant to innovate programming practice." – Samuel Tesla
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Why Go gets criticized so much
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Re: Why Go gets criticized so much
#12Offtopic: Can we please use "GoLang" for the language, so we can use "Go" unambiguously for the game? Especially in titles, where there is little context.
That's like calling for people to specify "Microsoft Windows", to avoid confusion with glass-enclosed wall openings.
I know there was a bit of news recently about a game engine defeating a top-level human player. Beyond that, however, the notion that "Go" references on Hacker News should default to the board game rather than the programming language is absurd.
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#13Offtopic: Can we please use "GoLang" for the language, so we can use "Go" unambiguously for the game? Especially in titles, where there is little context.
i would argue that for most people here Go = GoLang i had never heard of the go game, before the ai go thing
I don't know what the basis for your argument would be. Go the game and GoLang are both fairly talked about topics in Computer Science, most programmers do not program in GoLang (according to Github), and the AI match was a big deal for Computer Science in general. I would not be so quick to say that for MOST people here Go = GoLang, and agree with the parent comment.
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#14Good points, and also correct answer. Identity is hard to question. But when you try Go without prejudice, it's just fun (and productive) afterwards.
With golang, it is incredibly easy to get productive fast. It's like modernized, safe C with good standard library and trivial deployment. Those are pretty good selling points for getting stuff actually done.
Using Haskell for similar stuff is more tedious, even if a actual coding is more fun. I can see (and sometimes feel myself) the cognitive dissonance here.
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#15I don't hate Go. I do strongly dislike posts with clickbaity titles that have an admission the title is wrong in the very first sentence. The rest of the article is little better. It can be summed up in one line: People who dislike Go are upset because they incorporated their favourite programming language into their identity, and the success of Go challenges their own choices . Although I don't hate Go, I also don't…
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#17I don't hate Go. I do strongly dislike posts with clickbaity titles that have an admission the title is wrong in the very first sentence. The rest of the article is little better. It can be summed up in one line: People who dislike Go are upset because they incorporated their favourite programming language into their identity, and the success of Go challenges their own choices . Although I don't hate Go, I also don't…
If that's an accurate summary (I am not commenting on that fact), it's a completely clickbaity summary. Because it applies equally to why everyone hates every even semi-popular language (other than their one true love, if it's considered sufficiently popular).
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#18People who dislike X are upset because they incorporated their favourite Y into their identity, and the success of X challenges their own choices.
True for football teams, political parties, games consoles, superhero franchises, religions, food choices, colour schemes, preferred spelling variants, ...
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#19Offtopic: Can we please use "GoLang" for the language, so we can use "Go" unambiguously for the game? Especially in titles, where there is little context.
I do find the name extremely unfortunate. It's impossible to search for, as "go" is an extremely common word (bad for search engines) and substring (bad for ctrl-F find). I tried searching for shared web hosts that provide Go support and just gave up. Kind of hilarious to see a first-party Google language be impossible to search for.
A great many programming languages aren't particularly searchable, especially when searching engines weren't up to todays standards yet. Things have improved, but I remember the dark days when looking for anything C# would shower you with C-related links.
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#20Very sorry to make an aesthetic complaint, and Raleway is a fine font for certain applications, but blogs that use low contrast fine raleway for the body text just kinda make me want to read something else.