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Could you elaborate a bit on the obvious weaknesses in Go?

• 13415 8y ago
  Arbitrary examples off the top of my head: lack of references, no generics, verbose error handling, a few quirks (e.g. need to write (*slice)[i]), inconsistencies like new vs. make, interface{} hacks where there could be a zero-cost abstraction, oddities with untyped literals, no way to declare "not null" pointers and the Million Dollar Mistake, built-in functions for built-in primitives (i.e., append(slice, datum) instead of slice.append(datum)) Stuff like that, which has been discussed over and over. Go is a bit of an odd language if you're used to languages like Ada, CommonLisp, or Racket, but I really like it a lot. I like the sense of pragmatism, that it has been developed to get things done. I believe that Go2 will be even better and am especially happy that the Go team has decided to adjust and include generics rather than stubbornly insisting that they are not needed.
  • whytaka 8y ago
    Thank you!