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I have spent 3 years being employed to write Go, and i think the language is abhorrent. Once I moved to a job where I didn't need to write Go, I quit smoking.
by eptcyka 5y ago
I have spent 3 years being employed to write Go, and i think the language is abhorrent. Once I moved to a job where I didn't need to write Go, I quit smoking.
- void_mint 5y agoI appreciate you adding context to your negative comment. I wouldn't really call it feedback, though, as you kinda just said "I hate it" a couple different ways. What didn't you like about it?
- tcbasche 5y agoCan you elaborate on why?
- eptcyka 5y agoWriting code that does a lot of IO gets very repetetive quick - `if err != nil` is just stupid. Different libraries have different conventions on matching on errors. Then there's the inability to know if an interface pointer is valid. Comments that change the way the code is built. The type system felt like it was forcing me to expose either interfaces that are either too restrictive or too open.
- yaml-ops-guy 5y agoSo the whole "quitting smoking" thing was...a happy coincidence? Did you go cold turkey? What were the nicotine withdrawal nightmares like? I had fierce ones when I quit
- eptcyka 5y agoSwitching jobs helped a lot. Not writing Go, I think definitely helped.
- terminenzio 5y agoAt least it's not JS, the modern stack is awful and I miss the times when we used jquery and everything worked in IE6 with 2MB of RAM
- eptcyka 5y agoStepping from one pile into another is not a valid argument as to why standing in the original one is bad.