I'm late to the hate-parade but I did want to chime in to say how much I appreciate all the work the go team has put into the language, a...
I'm late to the hate-parade but I did want to chime in to say how much I appreciate all the work the go team has put into the language, and tools. Go is a wonderful tool to get things done with. I recently rewrote a cross platform `enterprise` app from java (25k LOC) to go (8k LOC) and saw improvements in readability, memory footprint, and overall quality. Some notes on my experiences so far: Go binary size is a non-issue for most software. The java-rewrite I mentioned above went from a 80MB or so binary, to a 8MB executable. That said, there's been a few occasions when I've really wanted to use go for an embedded project, but couldn't due to it's size. I read somewhere, someone said of go, "you'll come for the concurrency, but you'll stay for the interfaces. This is very true for me. Generics. Go's red herring. Sure, there's been a handful of occasions where generics would have saved me some boiler-plate, but it's not been a pain point for me. Tooling, from fmt, vet, to unit testing are all first rate. However, I wish there was a better debugger option for go. I know that gdb works with go (and with a great deal of difficulty if you develop with OSX) but I'm probably not alone when I say I really dislike GDB. Overall, I've found the community to be friendly both online and in person. As an aside, I've noticed much of the recent vitriol towards Go seems to come from the Rust crowd which I think is too bad. I enjoy both. Languages are not a zero-sum game. Who knows, the hate means Go has finally arrived.
Posted by CatDevURandom on Feb 15, 2015, 9:10 PM
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> Clean room.
NewI left Gnome 3 for Mate early on and I never looked back, but here are the issues I remember.
Yay, I found my people… I switch between Android and iPhone every few cycles, and I really do miss my swipe keyboard on Android.
> LLMs to me are just another tool.
I used to be one of those people that would countdown the hours to Apple's launch events and tune in for the live stream.
> "Over the years it has been clear that we in the “open source” camp (as opposed to the “free software” camp) were wrong all along.
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I'm late to the hate-parade but I did want to chime in to say how much I appreciate all the work the go team has put into the language, a...
I'm late to the hate-parade but I did want to chime in to say how much I appreciate all the work the go team has put into the language, and tools. Go is a wonderful tool to get things done with. I recently rewrote a cross platform `enterprise` app from java (25k LOC) to go (8k LOC) and saw improvements in readability, memory footprint, and overall quality. Some notes on my experiences so far: Go binary size is a non-issue for most software. The java-rewrite I mentioned above went from a 80MB or so binary, to a 8MB executable. That said, there's been a few occasions when I've really wanted to use go for an embedded project, but couldn't due to it's size. I read somewhere, someone said of go, "you'll come for the concurrency, but you'll stay for the interfaces. This is very true for me. Generics. Go's red herring. Sure, there's been a handful of occasions where generics would have saved me some boiler-plate, but it's not been a pain point for me. Tooling, from fmt, vet, to unit testing are all first rate. However, I wish there was a better debugger option for go. I know that gdb works with go (and with a great deal of difficulty if you develop with OSX) but I'm probably not alone when I say I really dislike GDB. Overall, I've found the community to be friendly both online and in person. As an aside, I've noticed much of the recent vitriol towards Go seems to come from the Rust crowd which I think is too bad. I enjoy both. Languages are not a zero-sum game. Who knows, the hate means Go has finally arrived.
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