Ask HN: What do you dislike most about Golang?

Posted by networkimprov on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @07:44AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Please also indicate how long you have been coding in Go.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you dislike most about Golang? by karmakaze on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @09:09AM (#18655359)

Very limited ability to factor code especially related to error handling. Go2 will have some broken form of generics so that will help. Why do I say broken? Because they are starting from scratch to come up with something different rather than taking something good and making it better.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you dislike most about Golang? by networkimprov on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @02:50PM (#18658241)

Can you elaborate on "factor code"? Lack of error handling blocks?

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Re:Ask HN: What do you dislike most about Golang? by thepapanoob on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @07:49AM (#18654959)

all the information that gets hidden in plain sight: like the capital first letter indicating if a func / member is public or not

time coding go: to short because this seriously keeps me away from learning it

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Re:Ask HN: What do you dislike most about Golang? by networkimprov on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @08:06AM (#18655042)

It's well worth learning and using despite "features" like that.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you dislike most about Golang? by networkimprov on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @07:49AM (#18654957)

The bulky error handling in a language that prides itself on readability.

Go experience: full time for 2y.

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