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You might not agree with the design decisions, but to say one of the most successful contemporary systems programming languages was born out "old man rage" is i
by baus 10y ago
You might not agree with the design decisions, but to say one of the most successful contemporary systems programming languages was born out "old man rage" is insulting
- stcredzero 10y agoto say one of the most successful contemporary systems programming languages was born out "old man rage" is insulting Should I be insulted by your finding it insulting? My thought on reading that phrase was, "Right on!"
- baus 10y agoWith all the discussions of ageism and sexism in tech, classifing a significant contribution to the industry as the result of "old man rage" is inappropriate IMHO
- flogic 10y agoI can see how it would imply that negative connotation.
- stcredzero 10y agoBut being classifiable as an "old man" myself, I rather find it more annoying that it should be taken as a negative. Maybe "old man rage" should be taken as an indicator that the lessons of experience have been neglected? Instead, in our culture, it is taken to mean something foolish. I think this says something about our culture.
- flogic 10y agoTo be fair, I meant it in both contexts at the same time. A more polite term might be "opinionatedly retro". Go's conservative bend is both a positive and negative.
- stcredzero 10y agoSomewhat like the reviews my lovers give me.
- blilbs 10y agoWhat about in your un-honest opinion?
- pjmlp 10y agoI keep wondering how much success it would have had if the design team was still at AT&T.
- vvanders 10y agoSmall nit but many of us wouldn't consider Go a systems programming language. I'd say "service programming langauge" is more appropriate. It's missing many things that would make it appropriate for interacting with hardware and limited resources.
- eptcyka 10y agoI would rather people called it an application programming language. It relies heavily on it's runtime, and I've yet to see a piece of go code running on bare metal that isn't a hack or a proof of concept. However, I've seen multiple applications that rely on the OS to have nice abstractions over low-level inter-computer IPC (ethernet, tcp/ip).