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Re:Gotchas from Two Years with Node on Tuesday April 14, 2015 @12:23PM (#9375358)
Yes you can do a global catch, but the error still happened, the functionality was faulty and you didn't handle it properly (you just showed the error, period).
Re:Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition on Friday April 10, 2015 @08:58AM (#9353952)
Can we install regular Ubuntu packages on this phone? If we can then I guess you could install terminator, gnome-terminal or something.
Re:Show HN: I rendered the Go gopher using Go on Saturday February 07, 2015 @01:07AM (#9013251)
I'm very very impressed by your code quality especially when this is just your first Go project. I'm an experienced Go developer btw. You're just so good.
Re:GopherJS – A compiler from Go to JavaScript on Tuesday October 14, 2014 @07:29PM (#8456417)
The original output is very large but when gzipped it's surprisingly small. For example an app in my framework that gopherjs produces is like 1.2MB minified, but the gzipped one is just over 200kb, so no problem.
Re:Idiomatic Generics in Go on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @12:46PM (#8395855)
You could compare any language to machine language and you can say that language is less powerful. Go is not even close to the power of C and assembly. I'm not gonna even try to argue.
Re:Ask HN: What's with all the new languages? on Sunday June 15, 2014 @02:27PM (#7895889)
Your statement about Java or C# being "much nicer and faster" than Go is just plain wrong (Well if that's true then what's the reason to use Go?). In fact it falls in the same vein as Java or C# in performance, but it has the advantage of being native code. It isn't made to be a C contender. It's designed to be the simplest language to learn, the easiest to deploy, compile as fast as scripts, coding half as nice as Python and runs as fast as Java. Currently it excels at Cloud / server development.