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I have to say that I am tempted by Go precisely because I see a lot of comments like yours, namely, it seems just to "work" in a very simple way. I find myself

I have to say that I am tempted by Go precisely because I see a lot of comments like yours, namely, it seems just to "work" in a very simple way. I find myself somewhat overwhelmed by the avalanche of new language opportunities I am supposed to invest time in. Most seem to have this huge kitbag of functionality and they seem to merge into each other making it quite confusing which I should go to, and with technologies such as the LLVM it seems to me we're only at the beginning of the new language storm, where every CS postgrad wants to create a new language that does everything. Go seems to have a very clear and unique proposition in this environment: sparsity. This seems to me to be a very good differentiator, and to the extent that the language were to move towards all the other languages and try to add features, I personally would be disappointed. This is not spoken at all as an expert in Golang, quite the opposite. I simply love the clean imperative aspect which Golang seems to have and is why I am very tempted to learn it.

bojo 12y ago
Go is the most boring language I have ever coded in, and that is why I love it. Sure, it doesn't have some fancy bells and whistles people seem to want, but when you can sit down and write something functional, portable, and readable fairly quickly, I'd say that is a huge win.
- nine_k 12y ago
  "Functional"? I suppose you meant "procedural" :)
  - seunosewa 12y ago
    Something that works.
- threeseed 12y ago
  You know you could replace "Go" with "Java 1.0" and your comment would still be accurate. Funny that.
  - NateDad 12y ago
    This is old and tired. Go has a ton of features java 1.0 didn't. Hell, go has features java 1.7 doesn't (possibly 1.8, but I'm not as familiar with it).
    - kasey_junk 12y ago
      Actually, it isn't the same argument as golang == java 1.0. It's java 1.0 had similar goals and made similar design choices that golang is making (and had similar responses from developers). In many ways this rings true. Java 1.0 and Golang do share many of the same goals. A couple of areas where it really falls down though are that Java 1.0 lacked the emphasis on tooling which is golangs greatest strength and added a goal of "write once/run anywhere" which at the time seemed very important but now adds a lot of baggage.
      - NateDad 12y ago
        Kudos. That is perhaps the best reasoning I have ever seen for this comparison. I agree totally, though I don't think most people who make the comparison are thinking along the same lines. I think they generally just mean "compiled, GC, no generics".

bojo 12y ago

Go is the most boring language I have ever coded in, and that is why I love it. Sure, it doesn't have some fancy bells and whistles people seem to want, but when you can sit down and write something functional, portable, and readable fairly quickly, I'd say that is a huge win.

nine_k 12y ago
"Functional"? I suppose you meant "procedural" :)
- seunosewa 12y ago
  Something that works.
threeseed 12y ago
You know you could replace "Go" with "Java 1.0" and your comment would still be accurate. Funny that.
- NateDad 12y ago
  This is old and tired. Go has a ton of features java 1.0 didn't. Hell, go has features java 1.7 doesn't (possibly 1.8, but I'm not as familiar with it).
  - kasey_junk 12y ago
    Actually, it isn't the same argument as golang == java 1.0. It's java 1.0 had similar goals and made similar design choices that golang is making (and had similar responses from developers). In many ways this rings true. Java 1.0 and Golang do share many of the same goals. A couple of areas where it really falls down though are that Java 1.0 lacked the emphasis on tooling which is golangs greatest strength and added a goal of "write once/run anywhere" which at the time seemed very important but now adds a lot of baggage.
    - NateDad 12y ago
      Kudos. That is perhaps the best reasoning I have ever seen for this comparison. I agree totally, though I don't think most people who make the comparison are thinking along the same lines. I think they generally just mean "compiled, GC, no generics".