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Oh really? So the igo code won't be checked into your repo? The comments you've made will be preserved and in the right place in the resulting code? And you'll

by enneff 13y ago

Oh really? So the igo code won't be checked into your repo? The comments you've made will be preserved and in the right place in the resulting code? And you'll be writing go code that other go programmers will find idiomatic and easy to read? Also, if you use igo won't you have to adjust to read other peoples non-igo code? Or will you use a converter tool whenever you read any go code?

shurcooL 13y ago
Yes, that's the idea. The current implementation may not be finished/perfect. > Also, if you use igo won't you have to adjust to read other peoples non-igo code? Or will you use a converter tool whenever you read any go code? "Converter tool" makes it sound like you find it unreasonable. Do people use "converter tools" to view .html files in a rendered format? No, they use a browser. Or to display '\t' characters with different widths? Use a text editor: http://img534.imageshack.us/img534/1627/zo3w.png http://img534.imageshack.us/img534/1627/zo3w.png If you're gonna write Go code using iGo syntax, you're probably going to be using a code editor that supports iGo (I don't think one exists yet, this is just a prototype). You're not gonna be converting from .go to .igo manually, that'd be like running gofmt manually. I don't run gofmt manually, it happens on save (and in fact, I use goimports instead of gofmt).
- enneff 13y ago
  The converter tool comment was in the context of reading code on GitHub, for example.
  - delluminatus 13y ago
    I believe his point is that iGo is just a way of editing .go files. It's not as though you would be saving .igo files to disk or anything. So, it's totally unrelated to any kind of version control or file management, much less to Github.
    - enneff 13y ago
      No, it's not. Because if you're used to reading igo code and then you're browsing normal Go code in GitHub or watching a talk or reading a tutorial, you're going to have to mentally translate that code to igo. It's needless mental acrobatics.
      - Dobbs 13y ago
        Don't forget about godoc.
      - eikenberry 13y ago
        Most presentations don't use pure go-fmt'd code, they usually do some vertical space compression to get the code to fit on the slides better. So technically you already have to do this anyways.
DAddYE 13y ago
yes, I explained more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7445034 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7445034

by enneff 13y ago

shurcooL 13y ago

Yes, that's the idea. The current implementation may not be finished/perfect. > Also, if you use igo won't you have to adjust to read other peoples non-igo code? Or will you use a converter tool whenever you read any go code? "Converter tool" makes it sound like you find it unreasonable. Do people use "converter tools" to view .html files in a rendered format? No, they use a browser. Or to display '\t' characters with different widths? Use a text editor: http://img534.imageshack.us/img534/1627/zo3w.png http://img534.imageshack.us/img534/1627/zo3w.png If you're gonna write Go code using iGo syntax, you're probably going to be using a code editor that supports iGo (I don't think one exists yet, this is just a prototype). You're not gonna be converting from .go to .igo manually, that'd be like running gofmt manually. I don't run gofmt manually, it happens on save (and in fact, I use goimports instead of gofmt).

enneff 13y ago
The converter tool comment was in the context of reading code on GitHub, for example.
- delluminatus 13y ago
  I believe his point is that iGo is just a way of editing .go files. It's not as though you would be saving .igo files to disk or anything. So, it's totally unrelated to any kind of version control or file management, much less to Github.
  - enneff 13y ago
    No, it's not. Because if you're used to reading igo code and then you're browsing normal Go code in GitHub or watching a talk or reading a tutorial, you're going to have to mentally translate that code to igo. It's needless mental acrobatics.
    - Dobbs 13y ago
      Don't forget about godoc.
    - eikenberry 13y ago
      Most presentations don't use pure go-fmt'd code, they usually do some vertical space compression to get the code to fit on the slides better. So technically you already have to do this anyways.

DAddYE 13y ago

yes, I explained more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7445034 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7445034