Go+: Go designed for data science

Re:Go+: Go designed for data science by renox on Saturday March 27, 2021 @05:05PM (#26605622)

Bah, it's the same as Maths: notations 'compress' the formulas but at the cost of having to learn these notations..

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Re:Go+: Go designed for data science by marcus_holmes on Saturday March 27, 2021 @05:59PM (#26606003)

yes, this. Completely.

Is that more readable or less?

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Re:Go+: Go designed for data science by renox on Saturday March 27, 2021 @06:40PM (#26606256)

For who? Beginners or experts?

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Re:Go+: Go designed for data science by FridgeSeal on Saturday March 27, 2021 @08:26PM (#26606950)

Experts. Optimising your whole notation for beginners is pre-emptively putting up a skill ceiling. Beginners stop being beginners (at which point they’ll outgrow the beginner oriented syntax) but experts will remain experts.

Instead, optimise for teaching/learning the skills better rather than capping everyone’s skills. The presence of a learning curve is not an inherently bad thing.

Edit: re-reading your previous comments, I think you and I are in furious agreement haha

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