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I personally find go an interesting language I'd like to learn but why should the apparent need for something like gofix make you like the language.
by stewbrew 16y ago
I personally find go an interesting language I'd like to learn but why should the apparent need for something like gofix make you like the language.
- zerosanity 16y agoWhile the Go language is still under development you will run into problems from syntax and API changes. I think the existence of the gofix command speaks more about the quality of the effort put into Go as a whole. They actually put in the effort to make syntax and API changes as easy to fix as possible.
- __david__ 16y agoThe alternative is the way C++ was handled--for a very long time new stuff would be added to compilers in a non-backwards way and break all your code. This was happening pretty much every time you got a compiler update and was very frustrating. "gofix" seems like a pretty good compromise for using the language while it's developing and not having your code break constantly.