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that's kind of what happens when you take some of the brightest minds that hacked on Plan9 and Inferno for years and have them build a programming language. It'
by jd3 11y ago
that's kind of what happens when you take some of the brightest minds that hacked on Plan9 and Inferno for years and have them build a programming language. It's going to be unique. Idealistic. Romantic.
reading many of the points here makes me think: alienated java user who doesn't like change
- cmrdporcupine 11y agoNo, not at all. I want more change. Go is a bizarre mix of very conservative mixed with some modern concepts. We all know Rob Pike is smart. Doesn't mean I have to agree with him. I don't like the things that Go is conservative about. I think the lack of a good way of doing clear type safe operations in a statically typed language is a terrible oversight.
- mintplant 11y agoPlease let's not make personal attacks.
- imtringued 11y agoI think the word you were looking for was "regression" instead of "change"
- charlieflowers 11y agoHow do you get "alienated java user who doesn't like change" from a post whose author is obviously well versed in Haskell, Rust and Go?
- 15155 11y ago> alienated java user who doesn't like change Someone citing Haskell or Rust is probably the exact opposite of the stereotypical "Java drone," line-programmer churning away on bad features in the same fossilized Spring app for 10 years.