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> Go isn't an impressive programming language, but a very impressive software engineering language. Curious, what is the distinction?
by bsg75 13y ago
> Go isn't an impressive programming language, but a very impressive software engineering language.
Curious, what is the distinction?
- icedchai 13y agoIMO, simplicity, no surprises, doing stuff in a way that "makes sense" without a lot of boilerplate or cruft.
- coldtea 13y agoHe means that Go will not impress programming language geeks and academic PL researchers with cool evolved syntax or cutting edge features, but is a fine language for actually building software. In the same sense that a language that "in theory" has tons of cool stuff might be unusuable in practice (due to complexity, opaqueness, lack of libs, strange syntax etc).