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0 pointschimeracoder10y ago0 comments

> It seems you more enjoy just "Not Python" than Go itself.

No, I have experience with lots of languages. I'm comparing to Python here because that's what OP asked for.

I don't think Go is "just designed for what the creators want", but even if it were, I don't care, because that's what I want as well.

I'm talking about my personal experience of Go based on my own experience writing Go full-time for over three years, which is as long as the language has had a stable release. With all due respect, it's highly unlikely that a review from someone using it for four days is somehow going to change how productive I've already found the language makes me.

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seiji10y ago· 2 in thread

With all due respect, it's highly unlikely that a review from someone using it for four days

But, the review goes into a rant about how the Go community just thinks it's the greatest and refuses to listen to outside opinions due to a sense of inbred and ungrounded superiority... kinda like what you just did there.

chimeracoderOP10y ago

> the Go community just thinks it's the greatest and refuses to listen to outside opinions due to a sense of inbred and ungrounded superiority... kinda like what you just did there.

It's not 'inbred superiority' to think that my own experience is a better predictor of what works for me than what someone else thinks. I never said "Go is the greatest". I said that, based on my experience with a wide range of languages, Go is the best for me. OP asked "why might someone decide to use Go", and I answered by explaining why I decided to use Go.

From your comments throughout this thread, it seems that you really dislike Go. That's fine, don't use it. But why try and pick fights with those of us who do use it?

seiji10y ago

my own experience is a better predictor of what works for me

blub paradox. We only know what we know. Outside opinions are very valuable to show us better things exist.

But why try and pick fights with those of us who do use it?

Because the language is bad. It's not conducive to reading code or writing code. It's code for code's sake. It's a bad platform. The more it grows the more programmer minds it corrupts. The more it grows the less easy it becomes to avoid in general.

Programming is important. Our programs will outlive us. We can't afford to have the entire system run on what a small group of isolated people feel is right. Systems have to be powerfully expressive and powerfully legible without succumbing to failure-to-understand errors due to typography or mass indirection ("magic") in too many places.

Programming isn't H&M fast fashion. It's The Golden Gate Bridge. If you screw it up in 2015, you're at risk of killing people, ongoing, in the future, in perpetuity. (also see: flash, android, java, the unmaintained openssl debacle, ...)

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