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Maybe, but the Go authors never banned people expressing disagreement or people forking the compiler or the tools. Almost all programming languages have featur
by ngrilly 7y ago
Maybe, but the Go authors never banned people expressing disagreement or people forking the compiler or the tools.
Almost all programming languages have features being asked by the community and not available as soon as one would hope. Modules in C++. Value types in Java. Removing the GIL in Python. Parallelism in OCaml. Higher kinded types in Rust. Etc.
And most of the time there are pros and cons to adding these features or not, which sometimes evolve in a debate fracturing the community. It even happened to the otherwise peaceful Python community with Guido quitting after the decision of assignment expression: “Now that PEP 572 is done, I don’t ever want to have to fight so hard for a PEP and find that so many people despise my decisions.”