Hi Pat, I also have some (quite a lot) years of Java, and absolutely agree with everything you said.
And +1 to Ian's opinion on how free software projects must be driven. On Friday, May 24, 2019 at 5:24:41 AM UTC+3, Pat Farrell wrote: > > On Thursday, May 23, 2019 at 9:18:25 AM UTC-4, lgo...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/GoIsGooglesLanguage >> > > Before I became a GO nut, I did 20 years of commercial Java. I became a > big fan of Google's Guava library. > Guava was open source, but was driven by Google's needs. Outside > contributions were rare. I got used to it. > > I wonder if being "community driven" is really a good thing. GO was > invented by a tiny team with strict ideas. This is in strong contrast to > Java or C++, which are bloated and overly complex languages. > > There are times I'd rather not have something, say generics, rather than > pollute the simplicity of the tool to add features that the community > wants. IMHO, YMMV, etc. > -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/78f14964-930e-4160-95de-f3e56dffee6f%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
