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by uriel 15y ago
The Go stdlib is rather comprehensive. And there are tons of third party libs: http://go-lang.cat-v.org/pure-go-libs http://go-lang.cat-v.org/library-bindings
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by uriel 15y ago
Go for Windows: http://code.google.com/p/gomingw/downloads/list
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by uriel 15y ago
Or write your initial version in Go, and you wont have to do a rewrite ;)
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by uriel 15y ago
According to comment in this same thread by a member of the Wave team, the problem is that they used Java the way it is supposed to be used, and that is why they ended up with over a million lines of idiomatic Java code when the same projec
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by uriel 15y ago
One of the reasons Go still doesn't have generics is reluctance to 'bolt them on', and that the current language works surprisingly well without them. Of course that wont't stop people who have not written any Go code from claiming Go is wo
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by uriel 15y ago
> And it badly needs generics. Everyone I know who has actually used Go strongly disagrees with this claim, they are very happy with Go's interface system and most of them don't notice the lack of generics at all. Go is not like other l
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What is wrong with GWT.(ryandoherty.net)
28 points by uriel 15y ago|35 comments
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by uriel 15y ago
I still have trouble understanding how anyone can take something like GWT seriously. Whole books could be written about everything that is wrong with GWT, but here is one post that barely scratches the surface: http://ryandoherty.net/2007/
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by uriel 15y ago
> Many googlers I've spoken to firmly believe that you need a strongly typed Dart might be many things, none of them come remotely close to _strongly typed_. Also, I never understood why Google ever started GWT, the idea itself is like
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by uriel 15y ago
Or Go-flavored.
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by uriel 15y ago
Go is awesome by default because of Ken Thompson, not because of Google.
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by uriel 15y ago
That sounds like a problem with the packaging for your distribution. If you install Go the way golang.org instructions indicate, you can install everything as a non-root user just fine.
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by uriel 15y ago
I have used `class` less and less in my Python code, and when I still use it, it is as little more than a struct. I never use inheritance. Since I started to do this, my code has become much simpler and cleaner.
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by uriel 15y ago
One thing to remember is that AFAIK no D2 compiler implements the whole language, and even DMD, which is the 'canonical' implementation seems to be well known for its copious bugs. This is not surprising given how huge and complex the langu
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by uriel 15y ago
Go is specially a huge step backwards from C++ in convoluted insanity.
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by uriel 15y ago
Yesterday in #go-nuts we were discussing better names for close() which currently causes so much confusion, my suggestion was end(), but done() is a good one too.
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by uriel 15y ago
There are Go packages for Debian and Ubuntu at least ( http://go-lang.cat-v.org/packages ) plus a binary distribution for Windows, and installing in other systems is quite trivial: $ hg clone -u release https://go.googlecode.com/hg/ g
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by uriel 15y ago
Glad that you are quite open minded and ready to listen to new points on this topic, most people seem to prefer to ignore logic and evidence and instead follow what feels good. > How I define a living wage: Enough income for a 1 BR apar
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by uriel 15y ago
Recent releases are already available for Windows, see http://code.google.com/p/gomingw/
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by uriel 15y ago
You could as well say that now that gcc can compile C++, it can drop support for C (and no, C is not a subset of C++ anymore). Go aims for a very small and clean set of features that work well together and produce code that is easy to write
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by uriel 15y ago
When will it be stable for Windows? And i'm not joking either. Flash is the main cause of browser instability and RAM hogging. And this without even getting started on security.
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by uriel 15y ago
> Perhaps, but is minimum wage actually a living wage? What is a 'living wage'? > just because someone is employed doesn't mean that they are in a good position. They certainly are in a better position than somebody who is unemploye
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by uriel 15y ago
> A bunch of dumb decisions? Not necessarily. Sometimes life just happens. "If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on TV telling you how to do your
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by uriel 15y ago
> Why was unemployment so much lower five years ago than now? Did people just get really lazy? Could the raise of the minimum wage have something to do with increased unemployment?
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by uriel 15y ago
OS X design is still a horrible mess, a monolithic BSD kernel bolted on top of a monstruous Mach 'micro'-kernel. Not to mention things like the new XML-based init system, property list files, hacks around 'extended attributes' (or whatever
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by uriel 15y ago
Any program that manipulates or traverses file trees is affected, and a few more, in an OS that is built around the concept of hierarchical file systems, this is quite a few.
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by uriel 15y ago
> Plan9 keeps being mentioned, but do regular users understand it? (Is there a "this is why we do things, and this is why that's good" written for people who haven't written their own compiler?) Yes, you can start with the main Plan 9 p
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by uriel 15y ago
That is a somewhat silly comment from Linus given that ken and rob designed and built Plan 9 together. (For example, ken designed UTF-8 while rob helped write the code: http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utf-8_history )
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by uriel 15y ago
There are other problems with symlinks too: http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/symlinks Every command that operates on files needs an extra flag to tell it whatever it should follow symlinks, or operate on the target, or on the symlink its
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by uriel 15y ago
And this is so sad. By the way, Plan 9 doesn't have sockets, it has /net: http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/3/ip with the dial API built on top: http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/2/dial This means that for example, Plan 9 applications that do netwo

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