> if I name my source file i_love_linux.go, it won’t get compiled on my Mac What the fuck?
Explanation from a previous discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16414435
...seriously wtf
Why I Don't Like Golang (2016)
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Re: Why I Don't Like Golang (2016)
#32They'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…
You can explicitly declare that it implements an interface: https://go.dev/play/p/VCcrSXT59w0
I think you forgot the "hasA" type on the var line. Fixed: https://go.dev/play/p/0Amm7nd1Av4
Re: Why I Don't Like Golang (2016)
#33>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.)
Re: Why I Don't Like Golang (2016)
#34> There’s no ternary (?:) operator. Every C-like language has had this, and I miss it every day that I program in Go. The language is removing functional idioms right when everyone is agreeing that these are useful. And everyone agreed so hard that it was removed from almost every modern C replacement (Rust, Nim, Zig, Elixir, Kotlin).
Ternary syntax was statement-oriented languages' compromise to get one bit of nontrivial expression syntax into the language. In Rust everything is already an expression, including if-else, so additional syntax isn't necessary.
Re: Why I Don't Like Golang (2016)
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Professional developers in the USA usually make 6 figures.
Musicians and carpenters make far less than programmers, but they still buy their tools. Software people are too entitled. Even if you are not professional, you can still afford 54c a day ($200 a year). Even a programmer in India can.
I'm not paying that much for an editor that runs counter to my muscle memory, just so I can use a different programming language.
If a language requires some IDE to make it usable, then I put it in the same camp as Java: Hope the competition are using it.
Re: Why I Don't Like Golang (2016)
#36> if I name my source file i_love_linux.go, it won’t get compiled on my Mac What the fuck?
Searching around a few blogs mention _linux.go files are only compiled on Linux. But I see nothing in the official documentation, will at least in my quick searches.
It will catch someone out who uses BSD as an acronym for something in their domain model (Bulk Sales Discount?) then xyz_bsd.go doesn't compile.
Re: Why I Don't Like Golang (2016)
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Musicians and carpenters make far less than programmers, but they still buy their tools. Software people are too entitled. Even if you are not professional, you can still afford 54c a day ($200 a year). Even a programmer in India can.
Many junior developers in my city make around $300 a month. After spending $200 on rent and most of the rest on food, you're not left with much. I understand nobody really cares about crap-holes like mine when they're making most of their money in Western Europe and North America, so just throwing it out there.
As highschool student in 80's Portugal, 10 years after 40 years dictatorship and colonial war were behind us, when software was sold as bootleg copies on bazaars, I saved enough money to eventually buy Turbo Pascal for students at 30 000 escudos.
As I wanted the real deal and not a bunch of no name floppies with copied manuals.
That would be around 150 euros, without taking into account the inflation to modern days.
And to place the price in perspective, it was a third of the minimum wage, while the overall cost of my PC took 5 years for my parents to pay back to the bank.
Re: Why I Don't Like Golang (2016)
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
In most cases you cannot use personal licence on a company hardware. JetBrains also have separation between individual licences and organization licences.
Re: Why I Don't Like Golang (2016)
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Musicians and carpenters make far less than programmers, but they still buy their tools. Software people are too entitled. Even if you are not professional, you can still afford 54c a day ($200 a year). Even a programmer in India can.
I'm not paying that much for an editor that runs counter to my muscle memory, just so I can use a different programming language. If a language requires some IDE to make it usable, then I put it in the same camp as Java: Hope the competition are using it.
No wonder FOSS languages are stuck in the pre-historic tooling.
Re: Why I Don't Like Golang (2016)
#40As a new Go user I seriously don't get the hype. It feels like C with some (not many) niceties thrown on top, that's not what we expect from high level languages. I am still waiting for the tada moment, hope it comes.
What are you using it for?