Go Lang: Comments Are Not Directives

Re:Go Lang: Comments Are Not Directives by EugeneOZ on Monday May 11, 2015 @04:26AM (#9523341)

I remember I reacted hysterically in Twitter about this change, somebody gave me link to your post and after reading first response of Brad Fitzpatrick I realized there's no chance for arguing or discussion - all decisions are final and community feedback isn't required.

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Re:Go Lang: Comments Are Not Directives by pfortuny on Monday May 11, 2015 @11:48AM (#9525584)

This reminds me of Plan9 "Just say no" on the Acme editor (see number 6 in the link).

http://fixunix.com/plan9/523380-%5B9fans%5D-using-acme-edito...

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Re:Go Lang: Comments Are Not Directives by marcus_holmes on Monday May 11, 2015 @09:24PM (#9528987)

I don't know what your reaction to that response was, whether you stuck with acme or not, but I'm now looking for another language to use instead of Go.

I thought at first that this reaction was just sour grapes ("nasty people on the intertubes didn't like my post"), but as I analysed it more I managed to pull out three elements:

1. If my sense of elegance and the Go team's sense of elegance is this divergent, then the language will probably get uglier to my eyes as it continues to evolve.

2. If this is the reaction from the team to this (relatively small and inexpensive to fix) problem, then we can expect absolutely no movement at all on the bigger and harder problems (dependency versioning, generics). I used to have faith that these very smart people will come up with an elegant solution to these issues - I still love the simplicity and elegance of the standard library - but my faith has now gone.

3. Brad's response was amazing and I'd follow him anywhere, but... I don't want to follow the rest. If I'm to commit my time and effort to learning (and to a tiny extent popularising) the language and being part of the community, I want to believe in the people building it. I don't any more.

Humans are weird.

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Re:Go Lang: Comments Are Not Directives by EugeneOZ on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @06:37AM (#9530695)

Agree with 1 and 2. And to clarify my comment: Brad's response is very detailed and I have nothing against it, I just see even Brad can't change things so these things will not be changed by community. I really respect Brad as a programmer.

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Re:Go Lang: Comments Are Not Directives by pfortuny on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @02:49AM (#9529932)

Never used Acme. The answer always seemed to me weird, like "we are right, we do not care about this."

Just say no is a good slogan for "bad" things but pretending that syntax highlighting is "bad" is senseless.

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