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Then let me ask instead: why does Go hit the HN front page each day? I would say Rust used to be/is similarly hyped, but it is sort of understandable there, as
by kaba0 3y ago
Then let me ask instead: why does Go hit the HN front page each day? I would say Rust used to be/is similarly hyped, but it is sort of understandable there, as it is built on a novel idea and fits a previously unoccupied space.
This is not true of Go, and we could just as well see just as many D, Java, C#, Haskell, OCaml posts, yet they combined are not as frequent “visitors”.
- philosopher1234 3y agoI think there is something that advocates/users of Go see in it that they don't feel has been understood by its detractors. And on the flip side, I think the detractors are not very interested in understanding what is good about Go, instead it seems more like a nuisance to be swatted away. I think this creates a great deal of tension between the two, and leads to massive blowup threads. So long as issues (like error handling) persist where these groups cant understand each other, i think the same arguments will repeat.
- kaba0 3y agoThanks, you are likely correct.