For me, the first thing that stood out was the readability. Clear syntax without distractions or cryptic ornamentation. This becomes especially obvious when reading other people's code. Then the small and clear language spec. For me this document is the first stop for looking up language questions. Quick and easy. Try this with the 1300+ pages of C++ spec!
I also appreciate the intentional lack of inheritance, the stability of the language, the get-things-done mentality of the community (or large parts thereof), as opposed to discussing "clever" code constructs as the umpteenth "elegant" solution to the ever same problem, the libraries-not-frameworks attitude, and all the other awesome aspects of the language and the people around it. Oh yes, and the garbage collector that clearly increases programmer productivity and reduces the number of possible bugs at the same time. On Tuesday, February 26, 2019 at 1:07:58 PM UTC+1, Louki Sumirniy wrote: > > I just wanted to jot down and share my personal most important reason, and > make this thread a short sample of the most important aspect of Go that > drove you to learn and use it. > > For me, it was this: I have been tinkering with programming on and off > over the years since I was 8 years old, when a TRS-80 CoCo arrived in my > house, and in all the time, and with many languages, from BASIC, Assembler, > Amiga E (this was the first that rFor eally came close to this reason for > me to learn go), C, Python and Vala, but in all of these instances, until > Go, I was unable to do the most important thing, as I have very good visual > thinking skills, but poor attention - to be able to complete even a > relatively simple application. > > My usual problem always was that I would get bogged down in some detail, > forget the bigger picture, and hit some big blocker in this detail and then > basically turn off the computer and go ride my skateboard. I have now > written several useful libraries, and massively extended and rewritten (now > around 80% done) a bitcoin-based cryptocurrency wallet/node server suite. > > Without Go's immediacy and simple, logical syntax and build system, I am > lost. Go may be unforgiving in its syntax and semantics, but this is good > because it's less decisions to make, and its really very possible with Go > to start writing code immediately, and figuring out how to slice up the > pieces and add new parts is far easier than in many other languages, start > from a very simple, vague base and sketch out the details bit by bit. No > other language has had this property that I have encountered before. I > often remark that the language's name and the short-attention-span and high > intelligence of many of its adopters have in common to some degree. > > I think part of it has to do with how one must be explicit with many > things, but at the same time, other places you can skip explications > because of the implicit, also lets you focus on what's important and not so > much distract you with superficial details. > > Many other languages force you to really separate coding and architecting, > Go lets you do it all on-the-fly. > -- 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.
