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I said it _doesn't_ give you enough power to justify the baggage, apologies if I wasn't clear. Iteration/modeling is one of my gripes in fact. The only way to
by gct 5y ago
I said it _doesn't_ give you enough power to justify the baggage, apologies if I wasn't clear. Iteration/modeling is one of my gripes in fact. The only way to copy a map is a for loop, really?
- gher-shyu3i 5y agoSorry about that. You wrote that the power it gives you does not justify the mess of the language. I agree that the language is messy, but that it also lacks any power whatsoever worth speaking about :)
- DangitBobby 5y agoThis isn't really fair. Despite requiring overly verbose code with lots of repetition and boilerplate, it is still quite powerful.
- gher-shyu3i 5y agoCould you list some of its powerful features? The only thing that gets a passing mention is goroutines, and even they are not implemented in a great manner.
- DangitBobby 5y agoPortable binaries, good cross-compilation support, easy to make shared libraries for use in, say, Python code for easy performance gains, goroutines and channels (they are a mixed bag). Apart from these, the language does make it easy for novices to write performant one-offs similar to how Python enables them to write slower one-offs. I personally hate writing in it, but I will when I think it makes my life easier.
- gher-shyu3i 5y ago> Portable binaries, good cross-compilation support, Nothing to do with the language. Other platforms provide the same features. > goroutines and channels Extremely verbose and also error prone. C#'s Tasks are much better abstractions for example. > the language does make it easy for novices to write performant one-offs Nothing to do with the language itself, it's just that it's compiled not interpreted like Python.
- DangitBobby 5y agoTooling is an important part of a language.
- gher-shyu3i 5y agoIt is, and Java/C# and gang have superior tooling.