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> Agreed. Go lacks many things, but the "zen" of Go is wonderful feature most people aren't aware of, or under appreciate. It's funny that you use the word "Ze
by chimeracoder 12y ago
> Agreed. Go lacks many things, but the "zen" of Go is wonderful feature most people aren't aware of, or under appreciate.
It's funny that you use the word "Zen" - about two years ago, I gave a talk about Go to the New York Python Meetup about why I switched to Go[0], and the punchline was that Go fits the Zen of Python[1] better than Python does[2].
[0] Before anyone gets upset - they asked me to speak, and they were genuinely happy with the presentation. It's not like I went in there to troll with a talk on "This is why your language sucks"!
[1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/ https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/
[2] If anyone's interested, these were the slides: https://s3.amazonaws.com/golangweekly/go_for_pythonistas.pdf https://s3.amazonaws.com/golangweekly/go_for_pythonistas.pdf