Useless
You created and ID just to say that?
He's right, though.
iGo: a new Syntax for GoLang
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Re: iGo: a new Syntax for GoLang
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They are annoying to type.
Maybe it is because I've been programming in for something like 24 years, but I don't find them annoying to type at all; Also, maybe I'm just slow, but my typing speed is hardly the bottleneck for me in writing code; I doubt it would be even if I typed at like 20 wpm (about 95 wpm for me, and I don't touchtype). And then lastly, you can always remap your keyboard to make {} non-shift characters and/or use a language…
They are really annoying on non US keyboards.
The common user don't really uses them, therefore they aren't even mapped in eu keyboards. Clearly the solution is to change the mapping, but as you can imagine, many people still need to look at the keyboard when typing... So how do you fix that?
I can teach my wife to code python, but if she has to type alt-gr 123 for every curly brace in JS, she will be tired quite soon.
Re: iGo: a new Syntax for GoLang
#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
It seems like a real "because we can" thing. Coffee script is smelly in the same way.
Um no. Apart from being pretty coffee-script makes you stick with good object definition conventions, hides away unsafe comparisons (== vs ===), and is generally much more easily understood. This is one of coffeescript's main focus points : hide away the not so nice features of js, and highlight the good parts.
Yeah, but the language is what it is. It's out there, it's in all the browsers, it's not going away.
Rather than just learn to idiomatically write code that uses the nice features of js while avoiding the bad parts; we have two totally different notations to learn. That only causes further fragmentation.