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Is there some reason documentation on the Golang website has 57 upvotes?
by krakensden 14y ago
Is there some reason documentation on the Golang website has 57 upvotes?
- melling 14y agoIf I had to guess, it's because people are quite excited about the language and they're interested in giving it some visibility. There's always lots of new technologies, but very few gain wide adoption.
- pasbesoin 14y agoThere is a collection programming books titled "Effective X", for language X. From multiple publishers, IIRC, though I think it may have started with Addison Wesley. The majority of those books with which I'm familiar have pretty good if not excellent reputations. I would suggest that this documentation's title may be acknowledging this, and perhaps -- deliberately or not -- leveraging it. EDIT: No, maybe it was indeed O'Reilly. E.g. Effective C and Effective C++.
- zoul 14y agoI enjoy the pragmatic reasoning behind the documented choices. It's an interesting input even if I don't work in Go.
- usea 14y agoIt's more of a "best practices" than it is documentation. In the vein of Effective C++ by Scott Meyers. It's well-written, informative and interesting. Definitely one of the best resources on Go I've come across.
- sp332 14y agoA page of examples of the Zen of Python got almost 200 upvotes. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2203101 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2203101 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3697378 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3697378