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In other words, Go represents a kind of Machiavellian power play, orchestrated by slow-and-careful programmers who are tired of suffering...

In other words, Go represents a kind of Machiavellian power play, orchestrated by slow-and-careful programmers who are tired of suffering for the sins of fast-and-loose programmers. The Go documentation refers quite often to intolerable 45-minute build times suffered by the original designers, and I can’t help but imagine them sitting around and seething about all those unused imports from those “other” programmers, that is, the “bad” programmers. I think this is why some people dislike Go. The Go authors have made a decision about the language and are sticking to it. I get the impression that they are doing this because they believe they are 'right'. That makes some people uncomfortable because we programmers like to discuss everything, and argue, and it's hard to come up against people who have what is close to 'faith' in their own beliefs.

Posted by jgrahamc on Apr 22, 2015, 11:03 AM

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In other words, Go represents a kind of Machiavellian power play, orchestrated by slow-and-careful programmers who are tired of suffering...

jgrahamcApr 22, 2015, 11:03 AM

In other words, Go represents a kind of Machiavellian power play, orchestrated by slow-and-careful programmers who are tired of suffering for the sins of fast-and-loose programmers. The Go documentation refers quite often to intolerable 45-minute build times suffered by the original designers, and I can’t help but imagine them sitting around and seething about all those unused imports from those “other” programmers, that is, the “bad” programmers. I think this is why some people dislike Go. The Go authors have made a decision about the language and are sticking to it. I get the impression that they are doing this because they believe they are 'right'. That makes some people uncomfortable because we programmers like to discuss everything, and argue, and it's hard to come up against people who have what is close to 'faith' in their own beliefs.

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