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Yeah. Typical dev hyperbole. In a similar vein, a fairly mid-level dev was recently trying to convince me that "Rob Pike is a clueless idiot who knows nothing
by blowski 5y ago
Yeah. Typical dev hyperbole.
In a similar vein, a fairly mid-level dev was recently trying to convince me that "Rob Pike is a clueless idiot who knows nothing about language design".
- y4mi 5y agoI somehow think that their opinion was a little more nuanced then that. And fwiw, Rob Pike definitely did make mistakes. Golang is a great language, but it's not perfect.
- blowski 5y agoIt really wasn’t more nuanced than that - I’m pretty much quoting verbatim. The argument stemmed from the lack of generics in Go, which apparently was a sign of incompetence. My general point is that there a lot of people who see the world in binary - genius or idiot, perfect or incompetent.