Re:Spf13 is leaving Google
by na85 on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @01:40AM
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>When I initially started Go, it felt so easy to pick up.
Same. It felt freeing to just say "fuck it, I'll use a struct" and have the built-ins required to automagically marshall json on the wire to structs in memory. That was pretty cool. You're spawning threads^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hgoroutines and passing messages and not giving a fuck because the language protects you.
Then I wanted to make v2 of my package.
Go's packaging (and module) system is just so indescribably, generally, and thoroughly bad that it put me off the language and I won't be back. I spent more time fucking around with dependencies and wondering why `go get` was giving me cryptic and unhelpful errors that were unaddressed by the docs than I did writing my code.
Same. It felt freeing to just say "fuck it, I'll use a struct" and have the built-ins required to automagically marshall json on the wire to structs in memory. That was pretty cool. You're spawning threads^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hgoroutines and passing messages and not giving a fuck because the language protects you.
Then I wanted to make v2 of my package.
Go's packaging (and module) system is just so indescribably, generally, and thoroughly bad that it put me off the language and I won't be back. I spent more time fucking around with dependencies and wondering why `go get` was giving me cryptic and unhelpful errors that were unaddressed by the docs than I did writing my code.
Deleting go was the best move I've made.