Re:Generics in Go with Ian Lance Taylor (2019)
by codr7 on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @07:59PM
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Go has its issues, name a language that doesn't.
For a long time I couldn't stand using it because it's so damn opinionated, but it still hits a sweet spot for me.
I like C a lot because of its simplicity, but hate spending days solving trivial problems.
If you really need C, nothing else will do. But if you're willing to trade some flexibility for convenience, Go lets you make that compromise without dragging along a ton of features that you didn't ask for.
For a long time I couldn't stand using it because it's so damn opinionated, but it still hits a sweet spot for me.
I like C a lot because of its simplicity, but hate spending days solving trivial problems.
If you really need C, nothing else will do. But if you're willing to trade some flexibility for convenience, Go lets you make that compromise without dragging along a ton of features that you didn't ask for.
It's a tool, if it works it works.