4 ms·
The older I am the more I come to the conclusion that best programmers aren't those who can bang out complex code, but those who can find a reasonably simple wa
by zoul 15y ago
The older I am the more I come to the conclusion that best programmers aren't those who can bang out complex code, but those who can find a reasonably simple way to implement even complex concepts. This does not work all the time, but mostly when I start to write "heroic" code I simply back up and try to find what I am doing wrong. Maybe this is the case with the authors of Go.
- enneff 15y agoKeeping things simple is hard. It takes a willingness to admit your mistakes and the time to go back and correct them. If you want something to last, you've got to fight to keep it from rotting under the weight of its own design. The less design, the more easily it can adapt to change. Ingrained in the Go project is the philosophy that things are always worth fixing, no matter how small. I don't think the value of this idea can be overstated.