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My expectations surrounding Go were born from my intense admiration for Python, which has grown so much as a language from its humble genesis at Google and prou
by sebchris 8y ago
My expectations surrounding Go were born from my intense admiration for Python, which has grown so much as a language from its humble genesis at Google and proudly stood the test the time. Needless to say, I was beyond disappointed. Barring its concurrency module, which is some half-backed mixture of STM and async, I was astonished at the absurdity of the language. It reminds me of JavaScript, which as I recall was originally written as a sort of joke. So yeah, Go's like a bad joke.
- dustycat 8y agoPython did not have a genesis at Google. It existed before Google did. JavaScript was written by Brendan Eich as the browser-side scripting language for the Netscape browser, originally based on Lisp I believe. It was not meant to be a joke.