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your "should" and "should" should be replaced with "doesn't" and "doesn't" or at best "may" and "may". more code has been written in Go than Haskell, Rust and
by f2f 12y ago
your "should" and "should" should be replaced with "doesn't" and "doesn't" or at best "may" and "may".
more code has been written in Go than Haskell, Rust and Ocaml combined.
- meowface 12y agoSo what? More code has been written in C and Java than Go and Rust and Ocaml and whatever-else combined. A language's popularity says little about its complexity or how good of a language it is. Powerful languages let you grapple with problems, weak languages first make you grapple with the language before tackling problems. Some people feel like Go gets in the way. I have not written any Go, but I understand both the praise and the criticism. Powerful languages can cause other issues, but they do enable certain things that weaker languages simply never can.
- f2f 12y agoC and Java are not the subject here.
- melling 12y agoYou're being a little vague. Can you give a couple examples where software projects were done in "powerful languages?" I can certainly appreciate that higher level languages are better. However, it seems like in practice they are not used as often as you would hope.
- codygman 12y agoDo you have a source? I don't find your claim implausible, however I would like to know how you came to that conclusion.
- sheepmullet 12y agoMore code will be written in COBOL this year alone than has ever been written in Go.
- f2f 12y agoyou're clueless.
- coldtea 12y agoNo, he's pretty right. Do you know what COBOL codebases are out there and what they power?
- sheepmullet 12y agoHow many lines of Go do you think will be written this year? 50 million? 100 million?
- dons 12y ago> more code has been written in Go than Haskell, Rust and Ocaml combined. [Citation needed]