Half a decade with Go

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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