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Go never intended to be perfect, it made no claim to be perfect. When people still write long articles explaining why Go is not perfect, for me, it is pretty st

• Dylan16807 7y ago
  You know people write long articles explaining why PHP is not perfect, right?
  • eternalban 7y ago
    "It's the economy, stupid", said a former US President. It's the economic attributes of a language that contribute to its market share. Go is a very good language from an economic point of view. (Java was also a remarkably good language, from an economic point of view.) As to the your specific point, I suggest a sufficiently large slice of software workers will include the sub-set that write long articles defending their theoretically so-so but economically superior languages: Those blog posts are a feature, not a bug, of economically viable programming languages. The bottom line is no one has proven that "the bottom line" is positively affected by use of sophisticated languages. The killer app of ho-hum languages is their demonstrated economic value.
    • Dylan16807 7y ago
      PHP has a couple attributes that make it easy to start using and deploy, and a massive pile of network effects. Those attributes have nothing to do with why it's a garbage fire, and 'sophistication' also has nothing to do with it. You could redo PHP to be equally sophisticated, and still have the things that make it popular, but also be a hundred times more consistent and less buggy. Heck, fixing refs and inconsistent syntax could make it less sophisticated. At least they've been fixing some of it...