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The same person who is involved with Plan 9 also made Go. Taking one look at that programming language doesn't leave me very optimistic about Plan 9.
by tsss 3y ago
The same person who is involved with Plan 9 also made Go. Taking one look at that programming language doesn't leave me very optimistic about Plan 9.
- didntcheck 3y agoAgreed. Go is a shining example of Unix philosophy - but I don't mean that as a compliment. I mean it prioritizes ease of implementation over any other concerns and hence forces the user to reinvent many wheels. Forces round things into square holes, regardless of if that interface actually makes sense. And either completely ignores good ideas from other camps or goes sour grapes and claims they're overcomplicated and bad (then quietly tries to hack them on later) Worse is better than nothing, but when better has been demonstrated to exist, worse is just worse
- phrenicfraud 3y agoI remember trying to figure out what's up with Go and left in complete disbelief when I was told that I need to install nginx on my local machine and fake a DNS entry just for go's package manager to "fetch" my local package from my local machine just so I could mess around with it how that works. All because I couldn't care less about 3rd party services like github.
- rhabarba 3y ago> The same person Go was designed by: - Robert Griesemer, known for nothing else, - Rob Pike, primarily known for sam(1), acme(1) and several other Plan 9 tools, the Blit (Unix's own graphical terminal), UTF-8 (with Ken Thompson), Inferno and Limbo, - and Ken Thompson, ancient god.
- phrenicfraud 3y agoAll these things you listed are objectively bad and a tumor and I'm glad that those that are gone, are gone for good, because the one that stayed is a menace to any programmer caring about his sanity.
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- rhabarba 3y agoWhat's wrong with Acme?
- lproven 3y agoBad how and why? I mean, as editors, for instance, Vi and Emacs are horrible ugly things that were rendered obsolete by the Apple Lisa in 1982, let alone by the mainstream success of the Mac a couple of years later. And yet, they persist. X11 is a horrid lashup for what most people actually use it for. And yet, it remains way more mainstream than Wayland, say.
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- mahogany 3y ago> The same person who is involved with Plan 9 also made Go. Taking one look at that programming language doesn't leave me very optimistic about Plan 9. Hilarious how in any thread on HN tangentially related to Go, somebody will inevitably find a way to construct that bridge to Go purely to shit on it (and it's rarely anything more interesting than "Go sucks, right?").
- tsss 3y agoIt is almost our duty as citizens to throw shit back at the Google marketing machine.