fooooor

Rust solved this, but the Go language developers are having too much prestige to be able to embrace Rust’s solution. Sad.

On the contrary, linq in C# is a killer function that other languages still fail to replicate.

How many sloc are required for this?

var max = mycollection.Max();

Probably 5-10 if you’re missing higher order functions. And the risk of bugs will be 10x.

I still don’t understand why Go isn’t the primary supported language for android.

Luddites don’t use syntax highlighting though.

No it’s definitely not that simple. Code are read more often than written, no one works in a vacuum, especially not in open source. Also, when in Rome...

Lambdas usually have short variable names because the scope is small, typically half a line. And that is fine, even optimal.

What could be more idiomatic than:

for (int i=0; i<10; i++) { printf(”%d\n”, i); }

(Or the very similar Go equivalent)

If you having a hard time parsing that, due to the short variable name, i.e. if it’s a huge cognitive load for you, I suggest you switch career, b/c the IT industry is obviously not a good fit.

With that said, Go is explicit with suggesting short variable names for small scopes, and long variable names for bigger scopes. This a good practice in all languages.