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Let futures be futures (without.boats)
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[–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I like Go too, but not because it's a good language. I like it because it's the simplest garbage language I have to use regularly, and that puts a cap on how bad it can be. It also got a lot of language-adjacent things right, like tooling.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Heh, 'garbage language' or 'garbage-collected language'? Until Go I considered the two to be the same :)

    But yeah... the tooling is a strong point IMO.

    (Package management went downhill once the whole GOPROXY thing was introduced. When 'go get' was the simplest way to fetch packages, things were great IMHO ... but I'm not doing big enterprise-y stuff so maybe my view is too narrow as to the issues of 'vendoring', version management etc.)

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