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> The hype train The OP specifically talked about the "hype train". There is no hype train at all. The new languages like Go and co are the answer to problems
by spriggan3 11y ago
> The hype train
The OP specifically talked about the "hype train". There is no hype train at all. The new languages like Go and co are the answer to problems that exist with using C as a language for writing servers.
> That's rather under-specified (what kind of JSON API?), but there are very few cases where you would actually want to write such an API in C
Again the OP said all these new language were just hip. I answered than no, they are not, because of the reason you just exposed. We agree, you just didn't understand the point of my message and what I was responding to.
Dismissing Go and co as "hype" and then talking about the awesomeness of C is certainly non sense.
- jallmann 11y agoThe issue is that your criticisms of C range from superficial, to incorrect, to straw men. > Dismissing Go and co as "hype" I didn't read OP as dismissing Go &c, just an acknowledgement that they are getting a lot of attention, along with their tooling. OP didn't say what he was using C/C++ for either, so it's weak to make a comparison where none was implied eg, JSON API. That entire post was a very roundabout way to quibble about the use of the word "hype" by going on an otherwise unprovoked diatribe against C.
- spriggan3 11y ago> I didn't read OP as dismissing Go &c, just an acknowledgement that they are getting a lot of attention, along with their tooling. Yet that exactly what he did.