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Re:Half a decade with Go by f2f on Monday November 10, 2014 @11:21PM (#8588274)
your "should" and "should" should be replaced with "doesn't" and "doesn't" or at best "may" and "may".

more code has been written in Go than Haskell, Rust and Ocaml combined.

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Re:Half a decade with Go by sheepmullet on Monday November 10, 2014 @11:51PM (#8588357)
More code will be written in COBOL this year alone than has ever been written in Go.
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Re:Half a decade with Go by coldtea on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @04:14AM (#8588998)
No, he's pretty right. Do you know what COBOL codebases are out there and what they power?
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Re:Half a decade with Go by sheepmullet on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @03:03AM (#8588811)
How many lines of Go do you think will be written this year?

50 million? 100 million?

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Re:Half a decade with Go by meowface on Monday November 10, 2014 @11:27PM (#8588294)
So what? More code has been written in C and Java than Go and Rust and Ocaml and whatever-else combined. A language's popularity says little about its complexity or how good of a language it is.

Powerful languages let you grapple with problems, weak languages first make you grapple with the language before tackling problems. Some people feel like Go gets in the way. I have not written any Go, but I understand both the praise and the criticism.

Powerful languages can cause other issues, but they do enable certain things that weaker languages simply never can.

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Re:Half a decade with Go by melling on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @12:25AM (#8588463)
You're being a little vague. Can you give a couple examples where software projects were done in "powerful languages?" I can certainly appreciate that higher level languages are better. However, it seems like in practice they are not used as often as you would hope.
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Re:Half a decade with Go by f2f on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @12:02AM (#8588395)
C and Java are not the subject here.
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Re:Half a decade with Go by codygman on Monday November 10, 2014 @11:46PM (#8588345)
Do you have a source? I don't find your claim implausible, however I would like to know how you came to that conclusion.
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Re:Half a decade with Go by f2f on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @12:02AM (#8588397)
the internet is my source.
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Re:Half a decade with Go by melling on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @12:19AM (#8588445)
The Internet, in general, can be very unreliable.
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Re:Half a decade with Go by jamon51 on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @02:21AM (#8588713)
How do I know this statement is reliable?
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Re:Half a decade with Go by dons on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @08:57AM (#8589760)
> more code has been written in Go than Haskell, Rust and Ocaml combined.

[Citation needed]

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