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0 pointskaba02y ago0 comments

> The Go team was populated by people who had created one of the most influential languages of all time, C

Which is absolutely terrible from a programming language point of view, there were already better languages at its inception. Ken Thompson has a huge legacy in the CS world, but he is frankly not a good language designer at all.

Also, appeal to authority. If go were so good, it should able to be praised on its own accord.

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btilly2y ago

Have you read Worse Is Better?

https://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html

Go and C are good in a Worse Is Better way. They are not intended for writing the perfect and ideally engineered solution. They are designed to encourage pragmatic solutions to pragmatic problems, and therefore to become popular. And the features that make them suited to becoming popular are, in fact, tied to not trying to produce absolutely ideal solutions to the hard problems.

I am therefore praising them for being good at what they were designed to be good at. And pointing to their popularity is not an appeal from authority - it is a demonstration that they succeeded at their goal.

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