For me Go is the small but complete toolbox you need to build anything. Tim Allens Home Improvement and Binford comes to my mind :-)
Randall O'Reilly <rcoreil...@gmail.com> schrieb am Sa. 23. Feb. 2019 um 05:40: > On the topic of “selling” the advantages of Go vs. other languages such as > Python and C++, has anyone used the metaphor of other products that > strongly emphasize clean, elegant design, such as Apple hardware (I > wouldn’t make this case about their software, given the nature of > objective-C and Swift), the Tesla cars, and other such “icons” of modern > design? It just occurred to me that this might be a powerful way to relate > in one simple way what it is that people find so appealing about Go. By > comparison, every other language is clunky and ugly, etc.. > > e.g., I could imagine someone writing something like this: > > https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/how-steve-jobs-love-of-simplicity-fueled-a-design-revolution-23868877/ > > about Go vs. other programming languages, and in the process, really > communicating the essence of what is so great about the language in a way > that people can tangibly understand. I see so many discussions and > misunderstandings about Go being “kinda like C” and that is just so far > from the mark. > > Rob Pike’s talk: > https://talks.golang.org/2015/simplicity-is-complicated.slide#1 makes all > these points of course, very compellingly, but I wonder if adding the > simple point “Go is the Bauhaus of programming languages" as a kind of > tag-line. The practical problem is that many people probably don’t know > Bauhaus anymore, and saying “Go is the Apple of programming languages” has > all kinds of issues... Tesla? Steve Jobs instead of Apple? > > - Randy > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
