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Criticizing Golang here in HN will get me banned for causing flamewar. However, you can find lots of reasonable criticism on Golang just by googling. IMO Golang

by trpc 7y ago

Criticizing Golang here in HN will get me banned for causing flamewar. However, you can find lots of reasonable criticism on Golang just by googling. IMO Golang is one of the worst languages I've ever seen considering it was only started a decade ago.

1_player 7y ago
I downvoted you. Yours is not criticism, it's just ignorant bashing of a perfectly productive language that people adopted not because they're more stupid than you but because it made them more productive for whatever reason. No one forces you to code in Go if you don't like it. Fine, but don't belittle others if you're not prepared to understand why it's got so popular. Ignorance is bliss.
hnbroseph 7y ago
> Criticizing Golang here in HN will get me banned for causing flamewar that's either reductive or a strawman, if not both. afaict golang doesn't lack for criticism on hn, but most people do so without being insulting or hostile.
badrequest 7y ago
It doesn't seem like you have any genuine complaints about the language, but are merely interested in causing flamewars.
- trpc 7y ago
  Once I listed around 10 technical criticism points here a year ago without insulting and I got banned. I am just not going to waste a day trying to convince anybody with anything while most of the criticism has been stated a million times by a million people all over the internet.
  - gpvos 7y ago
    Well, I haven't read it, nor have I seen much other criticism of Go. If you post here, it is up to you to make your argument, not for your readers to seek it out.
    - AnimalMuppet 7y ago
      I have seen plenty... but not all that much substance. Much of it had the form of "How could they be so stupid to make those design choices!", as if the author's preferred approach was The Only Right Way. I've seen criticism that said "They couldn't have known anything about Modula 3 for them to make that choice!", when in fact Rob Pike talked about stealing an aspect of the object file format from Modula 3. Yeah, he knew it, and probably knew it in more detail than the critic did. Apart from "They should have done it the way I like!", the main criticism I have seen is lack of generics. That's a pretty common complaint, from a lot of different people.
whytaka 7y ago
If the rules are consistent and persistent, then you should be banned again as you have criticized Golang, but furthermore, provided zero substance to back your criticism.

by trpc 7y ago

1_player 7y ago

I downvoted you. Yours is not criticism, it's just ignorant bashing of a perfectly productive language that people adopted not because they're more stupid than you but because it made them more productive for whatever reason. No one forces you to code in Go if you don't like it. Fine, but don't belittle others if you're not prepared to understand why it's got so popular. Ignorance is bliss.

hnbroseph 7y ago

> Criticizing Golang here in HN will get me banned for causing flamewar that's either reductive or a strawman, if not both. afaict golang doesn't lack for criticism on hn, but most people do so without being insulting or hostile.

badrequest 7y ago

It doesn't seem like you have any genuine complaints about the language, but are merely interested in causing flamewars.

trpc 7y ago
Once I listed around 10 technical criticism points here a year ago without insulting and I got banned. I am just not going to waste a day trying to convince anybody with anything while most of the criticism has been stated a million times by a million people all over the internet.
- gpvos 7y ago
  Well, I haven't read it, nor have I seen much other criticism of Go. If you post here, it is up to you to make your argument, not for your readers to seek it out.
  - AnimalMuppet 7y ago
    I have seen plenty... but not all that much substance. Much of it had the form of "How could they be so stupid to make those design choices!", as if the author's preferred approach was The Only Right Way. I've seen criticism that said "They couldn't have known anything about Modula 3 for them to make that choice!", when in fact Rob Pike talked about stealing an aspect of the object file format from Modula 3. Yeah, he knew it, and probably knew it in more detail than the critic did. Apart from "They should have done it the way I like!", the main criticism I have seen is lack of generics. That's a pretty common complaint, from a lot of different people.

whytaka 7y ago

If the rules are consistent and persistent, then you should be banned again as you have criticized Golang, but furthermore, provided zero substance to back your criticism.