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It has slightly more expressive generics, but otherwise no more complex overall. And no more useful, except perhaps for typed errors. The biggest cause of bugs
by dontlaugh 3y ago
It has slightly more expressive generics, but otherwise no more complex overall. And no more useful, except perhaps for typed errors.
The biggest cause of bugs in Go I find is the weak type system. Nulls, untyped (and overly verbose) errors and the lack of sum types are a big problem.
- pjmlp 3y agoProper enumerations, sum types, pattern matching, exceptions, default interface implementations, dynamic loading, class loaders, annotations, compiler plugins,...
- dontlaugh 3y agoJava sum types and pattern matching are almost impossible to use in practice, sadly. Exceptions aren't a good thing, it's only good that they're typed. Go has exceptions too, they're just used rarely. The rest is not very interesting or particularly complex.
- pjmlp 3y agoWord salad, hand waving that Java has indeed a much better type system.
- dontlaugh 3y agoIt’s a little better, for sure. It’s nowhere near something sane like OCaml or Rust. I don’t particularly like Go or Java. I don’t see what salad has to do with anything I said. Go does have exceptions and unlike Java, they are untyped and rarely used. They’re not great in either language.
- demi56 3y agoYou’re loading your ideas of other languages into Go and with this current Go team that’s wishful features
- pjmlp 3y agoNot at all, I rather use other languages instead of dealing with frustation. I apreciate what Go offers as a better C alternative, similar to Limbo's role in Inferno, and that is the only thing I will advocate Go for.