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Nobody really claims any of Go's features are new in any way. And yet, Go put them together in a fashion that attracts developers because it is put together in
by _ak 12y ago
Nobody really claims any of Go's features are new in any way. And yet, Go put them together in a fashion that attracts developers because it is put together in an absolutely easy to use way.
There's this wonderful comparison of Go and Algol-68, actually meant as "Go is boring" criticism, but it really shows that Go has all these exciting features that have been around for several decades, and yet nobody bothered to implement them, integrate them and popularize them until the Go development team did so.
- mackwic 12y agoI was just answering the grand-parent question. Could you link the comparison ? Can't find it with simple searches. About the "Go is boring" thing, I also tend to think of Go as a boring language... but no more than C or Java. I feel it more like a "new but not so much" effect which I found it disappointing. By no mean it imply that's not a practical and useful language. In the end, the project and the code-base count more than the language itself.
- _ak 12y agohttp://cowlark.com/2009-11-15-go/ http://cowlark.com/2009-11-15-go/ That was published just about a month or two after Go was first released, it contains syntax errors (like the placements of curly braces), and Go has moved on significantly since then.
- pjmlp 12y ago>Nobody really claims any of Go's features are new in any way. Nobody from the Go team, that is true. My point was about some Go newbies and their respective blog posts advocating the language.
- pjmlp 12y ago>Nobody really claims any of Go's features are new in any way. Nobody from the Go team, that is true. My point was about some Go newbies and their respective blog posts advocating the language.