Portable Cloud Programming with Go Cloud

Re:Portable Cloud Programming with Go Cloud by pmontra on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @12:48PM (#17602768)

For me the big surprise is that we still have languages where we have to write things like

  func setupBucket(ctx context.Context) (*blob.Bucket, error) {
      sess, err := session.NewSession(&aws.Config{
          Region: aws.String("us-east-2"),
      })

full of ( ) { } * and & as if we were still in the 80s. So Go is a very surprising language, but this is highly subjective. No hard feelings.

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Re:Portable Cloud Programming with Go Cloud by robbrit on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @01:21PM (#17603107)

You're right, it is dependent on your perspective. Go is intended to be unsurprising to developers who want to just be able to look at code and have a good idea of what it does. Punctuation is very useful to get rid of ambiguity.

Contrast this with a language like Ruby which tries very hard to make punctuation optional, and often ends up with ambiguous cases where you aren't 100% certain how the interpreter will parse some code and so you end up throwing in all the punctuation anyway.

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Re:Portable Cloud Programming with Go Cloud by tapirl on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @01:03PM (#17602931)

Most popular languages are full of (). Most popular languages are full of {}, except python. All C family languages are full of *.

I can't see any surprises here.

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Re:Portable Cloud Programming with Go Cloud by didip on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @12:52PM (#17602803)

For a statically typed language, the number of sigils Go have is surprisingly low.

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Re:Portable Cloud Programming with Go Cloud by notdang on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @01:47PM (#17603370)

I prefer it like this instead of relying on indentation

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