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Go and Python are both firmly rooted in anti-cleverness Cleverness makes for macho code golfing and aha moments in small codebases Cleverness makes you quit y
by oldpersonintx 2y ago
Go and Python are both firmly rooted in anti-cleverness
Cleverness makes for macho code golfing and aha moments in small codebases
Cleverness makes you quit your job when the codebases pass 10k lines
- KronisLV 2y agoNot sure why this was flagged. > Cleverness makes you quit your job when the codebases pass 10k lines I've very much felt that in codebases that are hundreds of thousands of lines of code. Essentially it becomes: "Is it easier to track down this bug and fix it over a week or two (hopefully the solution isn't needed by tomorrow night), or is it easier to quit my job?" Sometimes the answer unironically is the second option.
- theshrike79 2y agoI always say that you can write clever code on your free time. When on the clock, make stuff that's readable and easy to manage.
- guappa 2y agoGo is rooted in: "let's make a language with managed memory that still manages to crash with memory errors". They should have hired someone that knew what he was doing.
- desumeku 2y agoIf you think that Go's creators "didn't know what they were doing" then I sure hope you exclusively run Windows, and not Unix, UTF-8, nor use anything else they had a hand in, like the JVM or the C programming language. In fact, you might as well just stop using computers considering how important Go's creators are in this industry. Clearly if they can't be trusted, nothing can.
- guappa 2y agoThat's not how it works… If you prove a theorem at some point in your life, and later go on claiming the earth is flat, earth is still not flat.
- pjmlp 2y agoThat is funny, Python gets as clever as C++ and Common Lisp, those unaware of it aren't really reading Python docs.