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Go is as far removed from "extreme abstraction" as any other language I know. I don't know how it can even for a second be considered to have that desireable at
by atilaneves 11y ago
Go is as far removed from "extreme abstraction" as any other language I know. I don't know how it can even for a second be considered to have that desireable attribute.
I, for one, don't like abstraction and power just because I'm a PL geek. I admit those are also reasons, but the truth is I use them to make my codebase smaller, simpler, and easier to reason about.
For some, achieving that goal means writing for loops. For me, it's never having to write explicit loops.
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 11y agoIt would be a shame if you are only making some things easier to reason about instead of everything.
- rubiquity 11y agoAgreed. There's abstraction and then there's abstraction. I might have been in the camp of Go enthusiasts if my experience with abstraction only included C++ or Java. But once I discovered Standard ML and OCaml I found out how wonderful abstraction can be.
- bkeroack 11y agoI'm not sure many people are arguing that abstraction isn't good for those who are writing the code--that's the whole point of abstraction after all, to make the developer's job easier. The problems tend to crop up for other people trying to decipher and read it. Sometimes also for the machine trying to execute it.