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> Yes please, there’s so much grammar that just refuses to support any user-defined type. Nothing embodies "the tale of two cities" esque paradox like Go does.
by ignoramous 6y ago
> Yes please, there’s so much grammar that just refuses to support any user-defined type.
Nothing embodies "the tale of two cities" esque paradox like Go does. If you're a programmer, Go is so simple that it isn't easy to do anything but the simplest thing.
- tptacek 6y agoGo is so simple that it usually doesn't make sense to express things in anything but simple terms. What surprised me about working in that kind of environment was how much it freed me to be creative about my algorithms and problem domain, rather than how concisely I was describing boring algorithms. I work mostly in Rust now, and that's a property I miss about Go.
- ignoramous 6y ago> ...freed me to be creative about my algorithms and problem domain, rather than how concisely I was describing boring algorithms. Agree. I dabble in Kotlin and Golang at work. Those languages can't be further apart. I occasionally need to read Rust code, but it has been a struggle compared to how easy it is to read Go.
- kibwen 6y agoFascinated to hear that you're using Rust in any capacity, from your comment history I assumed you were mostly Go. What domain, can I ask? Security research, cryptography?
- tptacek 6y agoI'm part of the development team at Fly.io. Actually, most of what I've been writing lately has been C, with the BPF verifier. But the rest of it has largely been Rust, and Rust is the language our proxies are written in.