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That's a surprisingly arrogant and troll-tier comment. If you don't like it, can't you just turn it off, or write your own editor (which Rob Pike has done at le

That's a surprisingly arrogant and troll-tier comment. If you don't like it, can't you just turn it off, or write your own editor (which Rob Pike has done at least twice)? Does Rob Pike also eschew error messages which point out the error's line number as a crutch for weak-minded coders? Does he avoid modern plotting software, opting instead to parse vast monochrome tables of numbers the way god intended? Does he oppose multiple virtual desktops, window systems, and GUIs in general because he grew up without these newfangled shortcuts that cause mental decrepitude in kids these days? He might be a genius who has made an exceptionally positive impact on computing, but he comes off as a bit of a dick in that thread. Using color to encode meaning is "juvenile" for a reason: it's an efficient way to leverage the builtin pattern recognition features of the human visual system.

deanCommie 5y ago
> surprisingly arrogant So, a Googler, and a Go language designer. Checks out.
- dang 5y ago
  Would you please stop breaking the site guidelines with flamebait and/or unsubstantive comments? You've done it repeatedly lately and we ban that sort of account. We're trying for a different sort of internet here...as I think you know? If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
dylan604 5y ago
>point out the error's line number Sounds like most of the JS libraries out there. I don't want to know what line of code in a library module that I didn't touch puked, I want to know what line of code that I wrote as the bit of stupidity. I just don't understand how that's considered helpful.
- marcinzm 5y ago
  I've found that bashing my head against a black box isn't a good way to solve problems I encounter. I've dug into open source code or libraries innumerable times to either find a workaround for an error, patch the error, locate a bug ticket or file a bug ticket.
- bawolff 5y ago
  If only error messages printed out stack traces. Oh wait, they do.
  - Macha 5y ago
    When it comes to JS UI frameworks they're not great a lot of the time. Working with Ember and the stack trace only goes as far back as their event loop scheduling something, or Angular JS used to throw their own custom errors with the stack trace of the original error in the string message which is not clickable in the browser as the browser only sees the stack trace of the newly thrown error.
dw-im-here 5y ago
Well, he eschews generics, so there's that
- mseepgood 5y ago
  No he doesn't? https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/jditu9/what_do_generics_allow/g9a6a74/?context=3 https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/jditu9/what_do_gene...

deanCommie 5y ago

> surprisingly arrogant So, a Googler, and a Go language designer. Checks out.

dang 5y ago
Would you please stop breaking the site guidelines with flamebait and/or unsubstantive comments? You've done it repeatedly lately and we ban that sort of account. We're trying for a different sort of internet here...as I think you know? If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

dylan604 5y ago

>point out the error's line number Sounds like most of the JS libraries out there. I don't want to know what line of code in a library module that I didn't touch puked, I want to know what line of code that I wrote as the bit of stupidity. I just don't understand how that's considered helpful.

marcinzm 5y ago
I've found that bashing my head against a black box isn't a good way to solve problems I encounter. I've dug into open source code or libraries innumerable times to either find a workaround for an error, patch the error, locate a bug ticket or file a bug ticket.
bawolff 5y ago
If only error messages printed out stack traces. Oh wait, they do.
- Macha 5y ago
  When it comes to JS UI frameworks they're not great a lot of the time. Working with Ember and the stack trace only goes as far back as their event loop scheduling something, or Angular JS used to throw their own custom errors with the stack trace of the original error in the string message which is not clickable in the browser as the browser only sees the stack trace of the newly thrown error.

dw-im-here 5y ago

Well, he eschews generics, so there's that

mseepgood 5y ago
No he doesn't? https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/jditu9/what_do_generics_allow/g9a6a74/?context=3 https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/jditu9/what_do_gene...