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> Writing a half million lines in any language gives you some authority. Totally. In this blog post, Khan Academy says "It is performant enough for us and our
by void_mint 5y ago
> Writing a half million lines in any language gives you some authority.
Totally.
In this blog post, Khan Academy says "It is performant enough for us and our team likes it". In this comment section, there are people insisting it's a bad language while having never used it. Not just "Haven't used it at that scale". Legitimately have never written a line of Go. This is part of why I made my post, to try to highlight the silliness of a lot of the "feedback" being slung around.
- ModernMech 5y agoAt the same time, I would expect the people who like it the least to have written on average fewer lines of code in Go than people who like it. It's probably like that for most languages; people tend to not heavily use tools they don't like. I've written some Go, but I have enough experience with enough languages to know I wouldn't like it any more if I were to use it more.
- void_mint 5y ago"I don't like it" != "It is bad"
- ModernMech 5y ago"I don't like it" == "It is a bad tool for me". That's about all anyone ever means when they call something bad. Or it's at least all they can mean. I just think you can have a valid and informed opinion of some tool without having written 500k lines in it.