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why is everybody saying they are put off by Go? Did we pass the "trend" phase and now it's cool to say go sucks?
To be serious, in my circle of developer-friends, we feel that it tries to be TOO simple, and disagree with some of the decisions of how the language works (ex. seemingly endless `if err != nil { return nil, err }` type things)
Putting aside the "web scale" jokes (http://www.mongodb-is-web-scale.com/), this statement is still absurd.
Every major language, or at least the ones that matter for backend development, has support for thread multiplexing / coroutines / fibers, whatever. Perhaps not in the core language syntax or standard library. But it's easy to implement with native code, and so SOMEONE has implemented it in a library if the language has an FFI.
Java, and all of the other JVM-based languages in turn, have Quasar (http://docs.paralleluniverse.co/quasar/).
Ruby has support for primitive fibers baked into the standard language (https://ruby-doc.org/core-2.1.1/Fiber.html), and likewise community gems with more robust functionality like Quasar.
Python 3 likewise has this out of the box (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0492/).
The list goes on and on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coroutine#Programming_language....
As far as web development in perl..well have fun convincing everyone on the node.js and python bandwagons to move 'back' to perl. Glad it works for you.
why is everybody saying they are put off by Go? Did we pass the "trend" phase and now it's cool to say go sucks?
> or Nginx or Node.js without the callback cacciatore.
What's a cacciatore in this context? It means hunter in Italian. Probably something messy if it means the same as callback hell.
Can anyone recommend a good book on Perl 6? Are there any (even bad ones)? Right now I feel the major reason that keeps me from investing time in Perl 6 - besides adoption by distros - is the lack of a good book, like the Lama and the Camel book for Perl 5. It's kind of frustrating after having waited so long.
Looking at the Perl 6 website, there are a few more coming along as well. https://perl6.org/resources/
Well, as a matter of fact I really got no output at all :(
why is everybody saying they are put off by Go? Did we pass the "trend" phase and now it's cool to say go sucks?