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I don't think that's fair. I'm not entirely sure what beautiful means for a programming language, but I've seen many examples of Go programs which exhibited a b

• dev_dull 8y ago
  I didn’t mean to knock Go. It’s just that when I ask people what they love about it, nobody usually expresses a “feeling” they have when they use it.
  • ammaskartik 8y ago
    Yes I agree. Beauty is highly subjective when it comes to programming languages. Its definitely an expression of a feeling from use and relative successes/failures. I know people I highly respect that call C# with Linq & its lambda implementation very beautiful, and I can see why, but I have not a strong opinion one way or another on it. I had a lot fun when initially learning Rust, and the way I have phased it in to the projects (work & home) that I have been doing has led to successes, which definitely increases my bias towards the fact rust is awesome =).
• weberc2 8y ago
  I think it’s different kinds of beauty. When I write Go, my good programs are “beautiful” for how simple they are; it’s relatively difficult to over-abstract. It’s the rugged practicality. The other kind of beauty is a quest for an abstraction that makes everything conceptually simple—once you understand the abstraction. It’s more of a mathematical elegance thing, and it’s just gravy if it happens to solve a real world problem.