The Zen of Go - Hackdot

Re:The Zen of Go by darkerside on Sunday February 23, 2020 @08:16AM (#22396698)

There's a real analogy to be made here with mass production and it's impact on labor. We quickly went from a society that valued individual craftsmanship to one that valued the ability to treat people like cogs at the factory. I'm not even mad, mass production is a great thing that enabled access to goods that many people would never have otherwise had. But eventually there was a backlash, and handcrafted, high quality goods are preferred by many who can afford them.

I'm not saying Go programmed products are lower quality, just that we've enabled certain types of organizations with the advent of greater process and rigor in languages. Someday the pendulum will likely swing again.

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Re:The Zen of Go by throwaway49872 on Sunday February 23, 2020 @10:16AM (#22397171)

> I'm not saying Go programmed products are lower quality

I've met plenty of good developers that complain at how Go ties their hands and creativity. Unsurprisingly, the language has been designed for "cogs":

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The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers. They’re typically, fairly young, fresh out of school, probably learned Java, maybe learned C or C++, probably learned Python. They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language but we want to use them to build good software. So, the language that we give them has to be easy for them to understand and easy to adopt. – Rob Pike

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Re:The Zen of Go by naringas on Sunday February 23, 2020 @08:26AM (#22396726)

we even treat education like this. children are educated as mass produced laborers for the future

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