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I’d like to get into go but in the past I’ve always been burned by not being able to quickly refactor my code. If I want to change the contract of get_kittens so that it returns a set instead of a list, I found it quite tiresome to then go to all the call sites of get_kittens and change their types to match. What was I doing wrong?* Perhaps there’s a cleverer tool out there that can infer and implement these type cha…
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The use to pirate stuff all the time. Now it's actually more convenient for me to buy it. But the philosophy I always had was that as long as there were enough people like you paying for software, I wouldn't have to.
I think most people in the industry pirated software when they were students or just beginning. But now that we make money it’s easier to just buy it. Friend of mine pirated photoshop when he was studying and after he finished and started his own business he started paying for it.
They've fixed the import / modules situation to a point where it's usable and much improved, and generics have been added. However, the issue this brings up about structs / types not explicitly declaring which interfaces they implement is a real and unaddressed problem, especially in large codebases. The only tool that I'm aware of that finds implementations is GoLand, at steep JetBrains prices. Figuring out what typ…
I’ve developed large Go codebases and never had this problem so your last sentence is false. In addition this is not an issue other go developers I’ve spoken to have ever worried or talked about.
They've fixed the import / modules situation to a point where it's usable and much improved, and generics have been added. However, the issue this brings up about structs / types not explicitly declaring which interfaces they implement is a real and unaddressed problem, especially in large codebases. The only tool that I'm aware of that finds implementations is GoLand, at steep JetBrains prices. Figuring out what typ…
> However, the issue this brings up about structs / types not explicitly declaring which interfaces they implement is a real and unaddressed problem You can do this with a line of code below the struct definition, something like: var _ = & {} The compiler will also generate helpful errors if the struct doesn't implement the interface. Not requiring struct definition is a great feature in golang. I'm able to add an in…
>The tried and true approach of providing a compare method works great and has none of these drawbacks. Agreed! https://pkg.go.dev/sort#Slice is wonderful. (Added a bit after this article was written, I think.)
sort.Slice(people, func(i, j int) bool { return people[i].Name people.sort(key=lambda person: person.name)
people.sort_by_key(|person| person.name); // sort_by is also an option...
- We create a closure that captures the people slice
- We pass the people slice and the closure to the Slice function
- The Slice function mutates the people slice, and because the closure captured the slice it sees these mutations too
I get why the Go team wrote sort.Slice like that, and it was perhaps the best they could have done with the language features...But I think we're going to have to agree to disagree on how wonderful it is compared to other languages ;).
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When developers who usually make 6 figures of money complain about $90/yr IDE price I just cannot help laugh. Actually it's even better... the price elevators down from $90 -> year2 90 - 20% -> year3 90 - 40%. Over three years that's like $150-$200 total and it will save you so many headaches. But that's a steep price? Are you kidding? Why do developers hate tools that cost money when they save them time and allow th…
Sorry, no. I have JetBrains and have since stopped using it for go development. It's too slow, too buggy, and lacks the ecosystem that VS code has. I still use it for Java because the rest are even worse A language that depends too much on IDE integration for usability is a real problem, because now you have tool fragmentation as everyone goes different routes with varying levels of success to fix the deficiencies in…
They've fixed the import / modules situation to a point where it's usable and much improved, and generics have been added. However, the issue this brings up about structs / types not explicitly declaring which interfaces they implement is a real and unaddressed problem, especially in large codebases. The only tool that I'm aware of that finds implementations is GoLand, at steep JetBrains prices. Figuring out what typ…
When developers who usually make 6 figures of money complain about $90/yr IDE price I just cannot help laugh. Actually it's even better... the price elevators down from $90 -> year2 90 - 20% -> year3 90 - 40%. Over three years that's like $150-$200 total and it will save you so many headaches. But that's a steep price? Are you kidding? Why do developers hate tools that cost money when they save them time and allow th…
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This is an undue attack. We buy our computers and screens and keyboards, most of us are on commercial OS, we pay for SaaS at a non trivial price, and most of us also use additional personal apps that aren't free (including password managers, mail clients etc.). Those are actual tools for the trade. Arguing we should also buy every Jetbrains product is like arguing carpenters should buy line drawing AR goggles. Perhap…
“I’ll pay $1000’s to get all setup and running with everything I need, including a bunch of stuff I don’t need, but not the last $90 for some productive software to make more money” Yeah ok.
After such public disregard to the communnity and contributors as a whole, the talk about good or bad has no meaning until they learn the basics. For example how to work with community, and the fact that you have to provide your phone number in order to fix urgent bug or implement some feature is a plain stupid(or rather malicious).
Just imagine you've spent your free time working on the fix or feature, and instead of getting appreciation or sometimes bounty or just nothing, you're being "charged" to contribute. Yeah, they really think it's normal that contributors have to give up PI to the advertisement company that were accused of violating privacy many times before. They basically treat contributors, tech-savvy users who provide free labor, like their usual consumers. Just think about it for a second, this is insane.
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When developers who usually make 6 figures of money complain about $90/yr IDE price I just cannot help laugh. Actually it's even better... the price elevators down from $90 -> year2 90 - 20% -> year3 90 - 40%. Over three years that's like $150-$200 total and it will save you so many headaches. But that's a steep price? Are you kidding? Why do developers hate tools that cost money when they save them time and allow th…
What's even worse is getting companies to pay for this stuff. Getting a company to buy software to help you do your job is like pulling teeth.
if they can't justify paying ~$100 for my ide of choice, then they are costing them selves far more in lost productivity, and that's not my problem.