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Exactly. Code is read WAY more often than it's written. Go is verbose, that's true. And if the speed of writing code is the biggest hurdle in your productivity
by theshrike79 3y ago
Exactly. Code is read WAY more often than it's written.
Go is verbose, that's true. And if the speed of writing code is the biggest hurdle in your productivity you're either a true 100x coder savant or deluded.
Go is boring, boring is good when you need shit to work every time. And especially when you can't pick the top1% geniuses to work on it and might need to bring some rando up to speed to the project AND language quickly.
- dave4420 3y agoGo is verbose. That slows me down when I’m _reading_ code. Especially when it means the chunk of code I’m reading doesn’t fit on my screen.
- baby 3y agoJava is verbose, C++ is verbose, Golang is not. Golang actually cared about verbosity. For example, uppercase letter means that your function is exposed, no keyword!
- stouset 3y agoOr when I have to pick out what the actual logic is amidst a forest of error handling. Or mentally deconstruct some complicated loop to figure out it's just doing a map, filter, reduce.