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According to my opinion, a programming language should let a developer use his or her style. gofmt is the best part of Go. Everybody's code looks the same.

According to my opinion, a programming language should let a developer use his or her style. gofmt is the best part of Go. Everybody's code looks the same. Broken Package Management This is a solved problem with dep. Switch your Go projects to dep today. In the documentation there is no mentioning of those missing things, you expect from a modern HTTP library. Go's philosophy is "less is more." This is the journey of every Go programmer: What?! Go doesn't have X??? This is an outrage! * figures out how to do it without X * I guess I didn't need X after all. I just had to write a bit of code.

MrBuddyCasino 9y ago
Spot on. Hopefully someday they build a monument to K&R with "less is more" written on it. As someone currently stuck in a Scala project, I'd donate a sizeable sum towards that goal.
matthewmacleod 9y ago
This is a solved problem with dep. Switch your Go projects to dep today. This never works correctly for me and I have no idea why. I haven't written enough Go lately to get this sorted – but it's definitely not quite so obvious. This is the journey of every Go programmer:* There are steps after that though: Oh, I guess I have to copy that code from before. No big deal. Oh, right. I have to copy it again, with some changes? I guess that's okay. Wait, did I fix this bug in the other copies too? fire and burning pain.
- lowmagnet 9y ago
  No offense intended, but in those steps, I'd have probably lifted some of that work into a closure or other higher-level function. Go behaves a lot like a hybrid of functional and objective programming.
vec 9y ago
> I guess I didn't need X after all. I just had to write a bit of code. I guess I don't need functions and variables after all. I just have to write a bit of assembly code (for some definition of "a bit"). When the complaint is that a language is insufficiently expressive, noting that anything is possible at the cost of being more verbose isn't really a refutation.
joepie91_ 9y ago
> Everybody's code looks the same. That is not a feature. Consistency and readability are not the same thing - it's a lazy substitute for readability, at best.
joepie91_ 9y ago
> This is a solved problem with dep. Switch your Go projects to dep today. From a quick glance, `dep` seems to still be using source/repository URLs as dependency identifiers, which is a terrible idea. Other languages use a registry for a reason.

MrBuddyCasino 9y ago

Spot on. Hopefully someday they build a monument to K&R with "less is more" written on it. As someone currently stuck in a Scala project, I'd donate a sizeable sum towards that goal.

matthewmacleod 9y ago

This is a solved problem with dep. Switch your Go projects to dep today. This never works correctly for me and I have no idea why. I haven't written enough Go lately to get this sorted – but it's definitely not quite so obvious. This is the journey of every Go programmer:* There are steps after that though: Oh, I guess I have to copy that code from before. No big deal. Oh, right. I have to copy it again, with some changes? I guess that's okay. Wait, did I fix this bug in the other copies too? fire and burning pain.

lowmagnet 9y ago
No offense intended, but in those steps, I'd have probably lifted some of that work into a closure or other higher-level function. Go behaves a lot like a hybrid of functional and objective programming.

vec 9y ago

> I guess I didn't need X after all. I just had to write a bit of code. I guess I don't need functions and variables after all. I just have to write a bit of assembly code (for some definition of "a bit"). When the complaint is that a language is insufficiently expressive, noting that anything is possible at the cost of being more verbose isn't really a refutation.

joepie91_ 9y ago

> Everybody's code looks the same. That is not a feature. Consistency and readability are not the same thing - it's a lazy substitute for readability, at best.

joepie91_ 9y ago

> This is a solved problem with dep. Switch your Go projects to dep today. From a quick glance, `dep` seems to still be using source/repository URLs as dependency identifiers, which is a terrible idea. Other languages use a registry for a reason.