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This kind of dismissive behaviour have been in the Go community since the beginning, unfortunately. It's the product of Rob Pike's behaviour and his rejection o

This kind of dismissive behaviour have been in the Go community since the beginning, unfortunately. It's the product of Rob Pike's behaviour and his rejection of "complexity". But you can't just dismissing complexity by deeming it irrelevant, it's there. Ian Lance Taylor is probably the only person in the Go team that has a more pragmatic approach to things. The rest is a bunch of deaf people led by the blinds and a few vocal gatekeepers outside Google that will publicly humiliate you if you stray away from the current orthodoxy.

draw_down 6y ago
> But you can't just dismissing complexity by deeming it irrelevant, it's there. This is my sense as well- by refusing to allow complexity in one area, you often just end up forcing it into another area. Moving the toothpaste around the tube. Overall Go was a bad fit for me in ways that come down to differences of opinion, and that's nobody's fault. But I did also come across the dismissiveness you mention. Overall I feel there is a callousness to the community, not just interpersonal interactions but the ways that certain things aren't provided for and tough shit if you don't like it.