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Imagine what Ken Thompson could have accomplished if he hadn't made all those poor design decisions! And yet hundreds of thousands of working programmers aroun

Imagine what Ken Thompson could have accomplished if he hadn't made all those poor design decisions! And yet hundreds of thousands of working programmers around the world are productively using Go while still continuing to ignore the supposedly superior solutions.

apta 7y ago
Appeal to authority fallacy. People still use C, what's your point? There are superior options, but people are either (1) forced to use something inferior, or (2) don't know any better (especially if they drank the kool aid).
- jbarham 7y ago
  > people are either (1) forced to use something inferior, or (2) don't know any better Here's another fallacy for you: false dilemma.
  - schrodinger 7y ago
    I agree with you and am nitpicking only for my own knowledge: isn’t it “False “Dichotomy”?
pjmlp 7y ago
Imagine how famous he would be if Bell Labs had been allowed to sell UNIX instead of giving its source code away with a symbolic price. Hundreds of developers used Basic, Pascal, C, Modula-2, Assembly, Forth productively. Maybe we should have kept using them, instead of coming up with programming languages that require a PhD. /s
yes-except-no 7y ago
>hundreds of thousands of working programmers around the world are productively using Go Source needed. Even the Go surveys only have mere thousands of respondants. Just because you're stuck in a Go bubble does not mean the world outside is the same. > still continuing to ignore the supposedly superior solutions. Go was literally made because Google said their junior employees are not able to understand more powerful languages. Go is a dumbed down language so that their armies of developers can be efficient code monkeys. Thousands of people are using excel macros and being very productive. That doesn't mean it's a good language either.
affyboi 7y ago
Mass adoption doesn't necessarily mean something is superior. For all the software that's written in Go, there's plenty more written in C++

apta 7y ago

Appeal to authority fallacy. People still use C, what's your point? There are superior options, but people are either (1) forced to use something inferior, or (2) don't know any better (especially if they drank the kool aid).

jbarham 7y ago
> people are either (1) forced to use something inferior, or (2) don't know any better Here's another fallacy for you: false dilemma.
- schrodinger 7y ago
  I agree with you and am nitpicking only for my own knowledge: isn’t it “False “Dichotomy”?

pjmlp 7y ago

Imagine how famous he would be if Bell Labs had been allowed to sell UNIX instead of giving its source code away with a symbolic price. Hundreds of developers used Basic, Pascal, C, Modula-2, Assembly, Forth productively. Maybe we should have kept using them, instead of coming up with programming languages that require a PhD. /s

yes-except-no 7y ago

>hundreds of thousands of working programmers around the world are productively using Go Source needed. Even the Go surveys only have mere thousands of respondants. Just because you're stuck in a Go bubble does not mean the world outside is the same. > still continuing to ignore the supposedly superior solutions. Go was literally made because Google said their junior employees are not able to understand more powerful languages. Go is a dumbed down language so that their armies of developers can be efficient code monkeys. Thousands of people are using excel macros and being very productive. That doesn't mean it's a good language either.

affyboi 7y ago

Mass adoption doesn't necessarily mean something is superior. For all the software that's written in Go, there's plenty more written in C++