Re:My Go Resolutions for 2017
by notheguyouthink on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @01:34PM
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> C#, Java and Rust all bit the bullet and accepted (some) of this complexity. Maybe Go will find a sweet spot, preserving its simplicity but adding a bit of expressiveness?
That's exactly my hope. When i switched from Rust back to Go, i had a sigh of relief, i was able to prototype quickly and easily and my cognitive load felt much lower.
Strangely enough, this felt very similar to switching from NodeJS to Golang. In Node, i was constantly worried about what is async or sync and the dynamic nature of it made my code feel like the wild wild west. Both Rust and NodeJS put a lot of mental burden on me, in different ways - Go was definitely a sweet spot in both correctness and ease of use, and i hope they achieve that with Generics as well.
NOTE: My Rust programs felt vastly more secure than in go, and i miss that - that part was less cognitive load in favor of Rust. The struggle was mainly at the design phase, and i just wanted to mock up some code and types & borrowing posed many refactoring issues. I hope in the future strong Rust tooling will make refactoring a breeze.
That's exactly my hope. When i switched from Rust back to Go, i had a sigh of relief, i was able to prototype quickly and easily and my cognitive load felt much lower.
Strangely enough, this felt very similar to switching from NodeJS to Golang. In Node, i was constantly worried about what is async or sync and the dynamic nature of it made my code feel like the wild wild west. Both Rust and NodeJS put a lot of mental burden on me, in different ways - Go was definitely a sweet spot in both correctness and ease of use, and i hope they achieve that with Generics as well.
NOTE: My Rust programs felt vastly more secure than in go, and i miss that - that part was less cognitive load in favor of Rust. The struggle was mainly at the design phase, and i just wanted to mock up some code and types & borrowing posed many refactoring issues. I hope in the future strong Rust tooling will make refactoring a breeze.