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0 pointsshawn7y ago0 comments

It figures that my critique would be undermined by the choice of a single word.

Look, maybe the stdlib is rock solid. But every time I try to build a Go project, `go build` finds ten ways not to work.

Case in point: https://github.com/cretz/tor-dht-poc

Try building this. I have no idea what's wrong with it, but it doesn't work. It's cool tech, I want it, but I don't want to immerse myself in the world of hurt^WGo just to get it.

I did however at least attempt to fix the problem: https://github.com/cretz/tor-dht-poc/pull/2

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Walkman7y ago

It has nothing to do with Go the language itself. There are tools for that and lazy authors have the same problem with other languages also.

latchkey7y ago

The 'problem' is that the authors did not use dep (soon to be modules) and add the Gopkg.[toml|lock] files.

mathw7y ago

Or that such tools aren't shipped and part of the standard Go experience.

Fortunately that's changing.

latchkey7y ago

ant, maven and gradle are not shipped with the JVM, yet the java community figures out how to do a build system somehow.

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0 pointsshawn7y ago0 comments

It figures that my critique would be undermined by the choice of a single word.

Look, maybe the stdlib is rock solid. But every time I try to build a Go project, `go build` finds ten ways not to work.

Case in point: https://github.com/cretz/tor-dht-poc

Try building this. I have no idea what's wrong with it, but it doesn't work. It's cool tech, I want it, but I don't want to immerse myself in the world of hurt^WGo just to get it.

I did however at least attempt to fix the problem: https://github.com/cretz/tor-dht-poc/pull/2

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Walkman7y ago

It has nothing to do with Go the language itself. There are tools for that and lazy authors have the same problem with other languages also.

latchkey7y ago

The 'problem' is that the authors did not use dep (soon to be modules) and add the Gopkg.[toml|lock] files.

mathw7y ago

Or that such tools aren't shipped and part of the standard Go experience.

Fortunately that's changing.

latchkey7y ago

ant, maven and gradle are not shipped with the JVM, yet the java community figures out how to do a build system somehow.

2 more replies

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse