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So should people stop talking about the pros/cons of programming languages at all? Because this can also go the other way. Another person can say: "If you enjoy
by itg 12y ago
So should people stop talking about the pros/cons of programming languages at all? Because this can also go the other way. Another person can say: "If you enjoy programming in Go, then use it but keep quiet and stop promoting it and talking about how much you like it."
I haven't used Go at all yet, but I'm interested in hearing more about it the good and bad parts, along with other languages. Telling others to not complain at all doesn't do any favors.
- tormeh 12y agoI agree, but I think there's something to be said for not complaining about lack of generics in Go. We kinda got it the first 100 times it was said.
- personZ 12y agothen use it but keep quiet and stop promoting it Remarkably there has been close to zero promotion of Go on Hacker News. Occasionally various incremental update things appear on the front page, just as there are updates on C# 5, the next version of Java, etc, but there have been shockingly few "Why you should use Go" type posts. People just use it. They don't advocate it. But when it comes up, inevitably it becomes an advocacy starting point for alternative languages. Somehow every single Go discussion, even about the most banal thing, ends up being about Rust, Haskell, F#, and so on.