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The Go community is currently checks the github using democracy to crush helper functions, I guess? Because they seem to think that writing the same if statemen
by KirinDave 7y ago
The Go community is currently checks the github using democracy to crush helper functions, I guess? Because they seem to think that writing the same if statement over and over again is theraputic and more clear than a helper function named try() that does the same thing more reliably would be.
IDK, they tend to call me names the instant they see I have Haskell and Erlang on my github.
- ben509 7y agoWell, the point of democracy is to resolve disputes. A community could be welcoming and nice and still broadly think an idea is wrong and should not be done. In fairness to the Go people, I read the various "try" proposals and it seems like they gave them serious consideration, which is probably the least worst way to tell someone "no." Likewise, they shouldn't be so invested in Go that they feel threatened that you like other languages, but feelings are pretty much random. I'm not a fan of the "code of conduct" stuff, but it's certainly addressing a legitimate issue and setting up an expectation that people treat each other decently probably does help with mitigating some of this.