Every line of Go code written is a radical act of protest against the self-appointed Experts
who fuck around with type systems and category theory all day. While it’s not my kind of language I appreciate that it exists and people actually do useful things with it
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Replying to @slava_pestov
The problem is that using Go is also a pointless protest against basic type system features that were universally acknowledged to be good until Rob Pike decided he’d go on a crusade against them for some reason. Like basic generics and non-nullable types.
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Replying to @pcwalton @slava_pestov
Feel like it started as "we don't need much to start getting things done, and a more fleshed out type sys is not the first priority", controversial but defensible, then morphed into the current, much worse "never extend the core lang" streak
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FWIW I really like working with Go (the tooling, standards, compile speed all great) and even think the emphasis on a solid implementation of something simple helped for a long time. Just wish there were now less resistance to evolution of the lang itself.
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Yep, as I said it’s not so much that Go is bad (because it’s not) but because Go could have been so much better.
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