Also, speaking only for myself, I really like the language and its ideas, but that one thing it's missing makes it too annoying to write code in it. I'd like to see more people aware of this deficiency and putting pressure on the language's owners to fix that problem, so that I can start using it.
If there's another thread which talks about good and bad points of the Golang design then, by all means, bash the language as much as you like. But if there's something you don't like it doesn't mean you get a free pass to repeat yourself whenever something with Go in the title appears in HN, whatever it is. Context matters, you aren't helping anybody, just trolling.
> Go is that _slim_, and that's good! Guaranteed you'll find use for Go in one system or the other...
I'm all for learning new programming languages, but if you're going to learn a new programming language, why not use one that has new ideas?
My point is that generics are not a new idea either, and plenty of languages offer them. Go is not meant (anymore) to replace C/C++/Java or even Rust. It will never have all the features of those, and probably should not.
But it seems impossible to have a HN discussion on Golang without part of the thread getting hijacked with "But generics!!!" This make no more sense to me than considering other languages incomplete because they don't generate static binaries.
Surely the exact same criticism could be leveraged at go proponents pointing out the exact same features they love every time, should discussions of Go simply stop until the next major release, and only new features (if any) be discussable?
Go hits some sweet spot, apparently, since some people are happier using it than anything else they had tried. If no "new ideas" are going to help them, why should they chose more "innovative" languages instead of Go?
