Ask HN: What do you like/dislike about Golang?

Re:Ask HN: What do you like/dislike about Golang? by brian_rak on Saturday November 26, 2022 @06:51PM (#33758286)

Like: The package and build system is amazing and just works. Simple, yet intuitive and powerful with the introduction of modules. It's hard to quantify the number of hours I've saved over other tools hunting down build/linker/dependency management issues.

Dislike: Error handling feels extremely verbose. I like the design choice to return errors explicitly, but it feels like there needs to be a return-if-error syntactic sugar introduced to avoid the endless if err != nil ... return err peppered everywhere.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you like/dislike about Golang? by closeparen on Saturday November 26, 2022 @07:43PM (#33758741)

Having worked with Go from the days of vendoring, to Glide, to Dep, it is really amazing to see Go turn its greatest weakness into one of its greatest strengths and most-loved features. It was worth the wait. Here’s hoping the rest of my gripes follow a similar arc.

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