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That's quite an odd humblebrag, I must say. You feel good for the simpletons for whom Go's expressiveness is adequate, but it's just not up to your own lofty i
by eplanit 5y ago
That's quite an odd humblebrag, I must say. You feel good for the simpletons for whom Go's expressiveness is adequate, but it's just not up to your own lofty ideas.
Perhaps the language isn't a fit for your skills or preferences, which is fine. You want something that scales with your abilities, but then say that you're not a strong programmer. A bit confusing.
- dgb23 5y agoI feel misunderstood! I wanted to convey that I'm torn. I like Go and I feel like it was made for people like me: Working programmers who want to get stuff done. And in a sense I am, I'm attracted to Go, but there are just enough things that are stumble blocks for me to keep using it or even consider using it in a professional manner over other options. Not because it is a bad language or because I consider its users bad, quite the contrary. In a sense it doesn't scale with my abilities, but that doesn't mean at all that they are special or golden. It's just a set of things that I absorbed and tried with experience or learned from books and filtered and adopted (dumbed down) for my needs. I think you might be right with: > "the language isn't a fit for your skills or preferences" Maybe should have worded it that way. For me Go is really good 80% of the time and then super awkward to use for the 20% where I cannot write the code in the way I think. It blocks me from exploring those thoughts if that makes sense. And that makes me unhappy.
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- masklinn 5y ago> That's quite an odd humblebrag, I must say. You feel good for the simpletons for whom Go's expressiveness is adequate, but it's just not up to your own lofty ideas. TBF that's how rob pike presents the langage.