Re: Moving from PHP to Go and Back Again
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Re: Moving from PHP to Go and Back Again
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Re: Re: Moving from PHP to Go and Back Again
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#3Everyone I know who uses Go complains about it. Every day you write Go code you will come across some piece of code that would be shorter with templates in C++ or using , or you could do it more simply in Python, or if you were really clever it would be a single line of Haskell.
And yet we keep writing Go.
By comparison, I'm a bit put off by the Rust community's evangelism, but that might just be my personal experiences with Rust community members.
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#4I don't know why the author bothered to even respond to that Medium article. The Medium article starts with that Go shines as a systems programming language. He lost me right there: how can a language with a garbage collector and a runtime be called a "systems programming language"?
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#5I don't know why the author bothered to even respond to that Medium article. The Medium article starts with that Go shines as a systems programming language. He lost me right there: how can a language with a garbage collector and a runtime be called a "systems programming language"?
"systems programming language" doesn't start and stop with bit twiddling one step removed from assembler.
There's a huge fuzzy region between that extreme and "application programming as a semi-skilled trade", and go seems to fill certain "systems programming" needs adequately as far as that goes.
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#6Everyone I know who uses Go complains about it. Every day you write Go code you will come across some piece of code that would be shorter with templates in C++ or using , or you could do it more simply in Python, or if you were really clever it would be a single line of Haskell. And yet we keep writing Go. By comparison, I'm a bit put off by the Rust community's evangelism, but that might just be my personal experien…
You're attempting to slaughter all the sacred cows of this community. I predict that will end badly
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#7Everyone I know who uses Go complains about it. Every day you write Go code you will come across some piece of code that would be shorter with templates in C++ or using , or you could do it more simply in Python, or if you were really clever it would be a single line of Haskell. And yet we keep writing Go. By comparison, I'm a bit put off by the Rust community's evangelism, but that might just be my personal experien…
I use the quality of people's complaints in interviews all the time.
I like it when they have a complaint but can see why the trade-off was made.
I don't like it when they're obviously parroting HN group-think.
I really don't like it when they have no complaints at all, but are able to recite the marketing happy-talk verbatim.
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#8Everyone I know who uses Go complains about it. Every day you write Go code you will come across some piece of code that would be shorter with templates in C++ or using , or you could do it more simply in Python, or if you were really clever it would be a single line of Haskell. And yet we keep writing Go. By comparison, I'm a bit put off by the Rust community's evangelism, but that might just be my personal experien…
Everyone who uses any tool sufficiently frequently will complain about it. This is not a good proxy for quality.
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#9Everyone I know who uses Go complains about it. Every day you write Go code you will come across some piece of code that would be shorter with templates in C++ or using , or you could do it more simply in Python, or if you were really clever it would be a single line of Haskell. And yet we keep writing Go. By comparison, I'm a bit put off by the Rust community's evangelism, but that might just be my personal experien…
> And yet we keep writing Go.
What are the alternatives if you want something with type checking? Java? No, thanks. Haskel? Where are the libraries? C/C++?
I guess Typescript is the only alternative
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#10It's not a good start when you have to resort to gifs ridiculing the other article.