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my favorite quote: "Writing software in languages like Python or Ruby often seduces you into being ignorant of what’s going on under the hood because it’s just
by mikesf888 11y ago
my favorite quote:
"Writing software in languages like Python or Ruby often seduces you into being ignorant of what’s going on under the hood because it’s just so easy to do pretty complex things, but languages like Go and C don’t hide that."
- erokar 11y agoDamning with faint praise. Often, you don't need to know what's going on under the hood, and often it's not very interesting.
- marcosdumay 11y agoTo tell the truth, Python is an easy target here, but I doubt 99.9% of the projects in C or C++ care to manage memory as closely as GHC does under the hood. (The same way as they don't manage concurrency.) Some times, it's even better not to look.
- bjt 11y agoI read that but I can't see what he's getting at. Go is garbage-collected just like Ruby and Python, right?
- azth 11y agoThe original comment didn't make a lot of sense. Go still has many things going on beneath the scenes, including GC and interfaces.