Re:Twelve Years of Go
by throwaway894345 on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @03:05PM
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The nice bit about Go is that this maturity is baked into the philosophy and thus the language, the tooling, and the ecosystem where it benefits even younger developers. For example, your own hard-earned wisdom is great but it doesn't automatically make your language's package manager (or any other software you depend on, including libraries) better. But when that kind of wisdom is idiomatic, everything is better even when it's built by more junior developers.
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Oh, I'm not necessarily suggesting that my lack of curiosity about new language designs is a good thing. In fact I think it's kind of a mixed bag. I'm only clarifying because I don't want to seem to be implying something negative about younger developers.
Re:Twelve Years of Go
by throwaway894345 on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @03:24PM
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I didn't think you were implying anything about younger developers, I was noting the rather significant difference between "I've matured as a programmer" and "maturity was baked into the language I use and its idioms, tools, ecosystem, etc".
Yeah, my point was that "matured" and "wisdom" are value-laden words and that's not necessarily the connotation I wanted to convey. Ideally I would get excited about both the problem and the tools. I completely understand the point you're trying to make about the ecosystem though.