[go-nuts] Re: When will the official encoding/json package support parsing json5?

2022-03-17 Thread Rob Muhlestein
It is my sincere hope that Go will never support anything as poorly designed as JSON5, using reflection is already slow enough. Comments were never intended for JSON and never should be added, ever. But since most discerning development shops are moving to Protobuf for everything that matters,

Re: [go-nuts] Re: New edition of the Go Programming Language comming soon ?

2022-03-17 Thread Rob Muhlestein
one on my live streams and potentially teaching from it directly for the Go programming portion of the upcoming 2022 Beginner Boost. Thanks again, On Wednesday, March 16, 2022 at 4:57:36 AM UTC-4 rog wrote: > On Tue, 15 Mar 2022 at 04:58, Rob Muhlestein wrote: > >> The essential iss

Re: [go-nuts] Re: New edition of the Go Programming Language comming soon ?

2022-03-14 Thread Rob Muhlestein
th a simpler future.) With Go 1.18 we have a real opportunity to correct this. For the record, I'm slowly putting together enough material to crowd-source a beginner Go 1.18 book and have probably a few dozen people interested in helping, but like so many others, I have other stuff I'm

[go-nuts] Re: New edition of the Go Programming Language comming soon ?

2022-03-14 Thread Rob Muhlestein
As an educator and mentor I've had very negative feedback about that book from dozens, from 12 to 50 years old. I preordered 25 when it came out and regret ever having anyone start Go with it. One brilliant kid (who went on to teach himself Assembly and C) nearly threw it at me. To date, I have

[go-nuts] Re: I just published : Iterator lib for Go: Library providing Map(), Filter(), Reduce() for Go

2022-03-14 Thread Rob Muhlestein
Here's one with 1.18 generics: https://github.com/rwxrob/fn (for fun). On Wednesday, August 25, 2021 at 10:17:59 AM UTC-4 Serge Hulne wrote: > https://github.com/serge-hulne/go_iter > > go get github.com/serge-hulne/go_iter > > Currently working on the doc and examples. > -- You received this m

Re: [go-nuts] Re: Go mindshare is low & ~flat, per Google Trends

2020-01-27 Thread Rob Muhlestein
flat, yet obviously YAML has massive "mindshare." --- “Mr. Rob” Muhlestein /^((Found|Teach|Hack)er|(Men|Jani)tor|C\w+O)$/ r...@robs.io • skilstak.io ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Sunday, January 26, 2020 5:51 PM, Liam wrote: > Google Trends is commonly used to discern pu

Re: [go-nuts] Re: Go mindshare is low & ~flat, per Google Trends

2020-01-21 Thread Rob Muhlestein
reach the mainstream. Focusing on how "popular" the language is seems counter-productive to me --- “Mr. Rob” Muhlestein /^((Found|Teach|Hack)er|(Men|Jani)tor|C\w+O)$/ r...@robs.io • skilstak.io ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Wednesday, January 15, 2020 5:18 PM, Liam wrote: > My