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@cess11 on Golang, no, rather Ken Thompson and colleagues designed a language stripped off things they find as an unnecessary cruft and they could finally get b
by kunley 2y ago
@cess11 on Golang, no, rather Ken Thompson and colleagues designed a language stripped off things they find as an unnecessary cruft and they could finally get back to the fun they had before Java and OO.
- cess11 2y ago"Finally".
- grumpyprole 2y agoI don't disagree that Java has cruft, but Go didn't fix data races, nulls or lack of sum types. It's not a "fun" language for me.
- kunley 2y agoYeah that's ok for you to think like that, at the same time it's fun for the creators and for a number of users, including me. Btw there so many languages with sum types (and almost none that fixed data races) that everybody can choose. The point is, I was aiming to refute one cummenter's claim that Go was created to lure specific people into Google as devs. Highly unlikely, Go's adoption in Google wasn't bad but also wasn't exactly a bed of roses.