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    1. Thomas H. Ptacek‏ @tqbf 9 May 2018
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      I do not understand where that pressure would be coming from.

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    2. ⏐ Τhе Αnⅽⅰеnt Вооеr ⏐‏ @KirinDave 9 May 2018
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      Peers, who think that they can get more golang programmers if they mandate golang is standard. This is pretty normal corporate engineering dynamics.

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    3. Thomas H. Ptacek‏ @tqbf 9 May 2018
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      If a quorum of your peers want to write in Go, how is this any different from, say, wanting to write in Clojure but being the only sexpr-tolerant person on your team?

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    4. ⏐ Τhе Αnⅽⅰеnt Вооеr ⏐‏ @KirinDave 9 May 2018
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      Many gophers I encounter are armed with a series of sales pitches that are quite annoying to address. A great example is the aforementioned, "It' got the fastest GC on the market."

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    5. ⏐ Τhе Αnⅽⅰеnt Вооеr ⏐‏ @KirinDave 9 May 2018
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      But also: golang is a unique thing here. We haven't had one for awhile. A young language that openly and cheerfully mocks a lot of progress made alongside it, argues that good things are bad simply because they don't have them. It's like a young hip... Java6.

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    6. Thomas H. Ptacek‏ @tqbf 9 May 2018
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      Yeah see here is where you lose me. Being annoyed by Go advocacy? Sure. (I don’t see a lot of Go advocacy compared to Rust, but w/evs). But elevating Go to some kind of weird moral concern? It’s weird but also false, since this is stuff Go shares with popular languages.

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    7. Thomas H. Ptacek‏ @tqbf 9 May 2018
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      If SFBA wasn’t built on Python I still wouldn’t agree with you but I’d at least see where you’re coming from. But it’s built on Python, an objectively inferior language.

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    8. ⏐ Τhе Αnⅽⅰеnt Вооеr ⏐‏ @KirinDave 9 May 2018
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      I don't think Python is a problem. I've always said: I don't like it at all. I think it's ridiculous, but at the end of the day my objections are that it makes me write more to do the exact same things Ruby does. Both, I think, grew as much as they could. I haven't.

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    9. Thomas H. Ptacek‏ @tqbf 9 May 2018
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      s/Python/Ruby//g

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    10. Thomas H. Ptacek‏ @tqbf 9 May 2018
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      (in the sense that both languages are objectively inferior to Go)

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      Patrick Walton‏ @pcwalton 9 May 2018
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      Eh, I disagree with “objectively”. Go is statically typed, and Python/Ruby are dynamically typed. I’m a fan of both dynamic and static typing. Both are cool in different circumstances. I actually have relatively few opinions about type systems for a “PL person” :)

      7:36 PM - 9 May 2018 from Oakland, CA
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