On 04/09/2020 08:41, Martin Blais wrote:
> Some years ago I had the opportunity to define a brand new project and
> build a new team for it, and it turned out the implementation was well
> suited for something like Go: relatively simple long-running servers
> mediating between various distributed services, with some basic data
> analysis code. I was excited to discover Go at the time and chose to
> implement everything in it, and I was hoping that it might become my
> favorite new powertool and dove in with great enthusiasm. I walked out
> the other end of that tunnel after a year or two, disheartened at the
> many weird quirks of the language, the various missed opportunities for
> helping keep things functional (not even close), some of the hype (no,
> co-routines will not solve all your concurrency problems and they're
> tricky), and its community prescribing methods I disagree with ("don't
> worry about abstracting, just cut-n-paste these same patterns of code
> all over"). And the absence of generics hurts. Even the aesthetics
> compelled by its clever use of capitalization started to weigh down on
> the team's appreciation of their source (it worked fine and ran fast,
> but I don't think anyone really "liked" their code). There's a lot to
> say; my point is that I've invested the time to learn it well enough
> that I know it's not my favorite thing to play with. Go gets some things
> so right - in particular, interfaces - but it gets many other things
> wrong, in my view. I'd use Go again in the future, but for pragmatic
> reasons, just to get things done, and if I wasn't going to have
> an emotional attachment to the project; but not for my fun projects.
> Plus Python for scripting things gets you so much more in terms of
> libraries.I am glad to see my impressions about Go, developed looking at it from far, are confirmed by someone that spent the time to dig deeper. Cheers, Dan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/0086a31b-277f-f989-836b-ca2abf124bb1%40grinta.net.
