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Because hype != progress. Hype is basically a bag full of air. You can try new things, but abandon the other ones because of hype (or thinking it's better cuz
by zobzu 14y ago
Because hype != progress. Hype is basically a bag full of air.
You can try new things, but abandon the other ones because of hype (or thinking it's better cuz "ppl who don't know anything about languages said so") instead of true technical merit is pretty fucked up :)
Now then again Go ain't bad, but I don't see it being better enough than Python to switch in this case. Python in better for many things as well. Not a large step enough.
- mquander 14y agoHype is a bunch of people claiming something is good. If there are enough people, you should probably go find out whether it really is good. If it really is, then voila! Progress happened. If it's not, you stop. This guy is busy finding out, that's all.
- zobzu 14y agoFair enough, but I fear that most of the time hype comes from people who fear missing the latest boat, or who think it'll help them if they say stuff like XX is cool (a misplaced positive attitude always helps more, than misplaced criticism) With mass globalization of the hype, we have countless examples of hype - even for programming - around things that aren't especially good. Marketing people know that pretty well.