5 Years of Bad Ideas -- Python tips, tricks, and chicanery

Re:5 Years of Bad Ideas -- Python tips, tricks, and chicanery by luriel on Sunday May 13, 2012 @07:45AM (#3966752)

This is one of the reasons I love Go: simple, clean, concise, expressive, and completely free of dark magic.

Code does what it says, and says what it does.

You don't get to feel so clever doing magic tricks, but you gain a lot of time by not having decipher and debug such magic tricks.

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Re:5 Years of Bad Ideas -- Python tips, tricks, and chicanery by marcus on Sunday May 13, 2012 @07:49AM (#3966760)

I believe in a balance, too little magic, and you're working with one hand tied behind your back, too much magic and you're working with blindfolds.

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Re:5 Years of Bad Ideas -- Python tips, tricks, and chicanery by luriel on Sunday May 13, 2012 @07:56AM (#3966768)

Seriously, try Go for a while, it wont take long before you feel that you have three hands, and more importantly, an extra third eye.

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Re:5 Years of Bad Ideas -- Python tips, tricks, and chicanery by hythloday on Sunday May 13, 2012 @08:49AM (#3966853)

Can you give an example in Go of how you'd solve the same problem as any of the python solutions?

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Re:5 Years of Bad Ideas -- Python tips, tricks, and chicanery by sirclueless on Monday May 14, 2012 @10:29PM (#3974556)

Well actually, people with bizarre build requirements are starting to use clean Go source code as a build target of their increasingly diverse preprocessors. Can't be healthy.

[1]: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-nuts/LQMv7Zsmsi0/8Aax...

[2]: https://github.com/jteeuwen/go-bindata

[3]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9838304/resource-bundling...

[4]: https://github.com/chanwit/kgc

[5]: https://github.com/droundy/gotgo

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Re:5 Years of Bad Ideas -- Python tips, tricks, and chicanery by batista on Sunday May 13, 2012 @10:23AM (#3967070)

I use Go and I don't see any particular expressivity or ability to code easier/faster, compared to, say Python.

The benefits are: type checking (if you need it), more speed (but not as much as advertised), and easy concurrency (if you need it).

I think one of the main "marketing" points of Go, in a grassroots way, is that some people coming from Python/Ruby/js etc, that have never (or only very lghtly) used C/C++ before, feel suddenly like they are using a "hard, grown up's language", what with pointers and everything. It's mostly an illusion, though.

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