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What a bizarre criticism... If anything Go is a ruthlessly utilitarian language; utility above mathematical elegance. I say this as someone who values mathemati
by weberc2 8y ago
What a bizarre criticism... If anything Go is a ruthlessly utilitarian language; utility above mathematical elegance. I say this as someone who values mathematical elegance. If I want mathematical elegance, I reach for a functional language; if I want to get something done, I reach (sometimes begrudgingly) for Go (and occassionally Python or JavaScript/TypeScript).
- jstimpfle 8y agoI even think that this utility (to me, it is synonymous with the simplicity from which it comes) has actual mathematical elegance. Whereas functional languages I find not particularly elegant once they hit the real world, must run on real machines etc. It gets ugly, complicated, or slow, really quick.
- weberc2 8y agoI agree, but it’s a different kind of elegance that is likely to be foreign to many folks in this thread, and I didn’t want to broach the distinction in this thread.