[zackmorris]

Oh man don't tell me these things. I haven't used Go yet in production, but the more I learn about the ways it diverges from functional programming, the more I doubt I'll ever use it.

I was thinking I could write my own if(condition, true_case, false_case) method similar to the way it's done in spreadsheets, but Go also doesn't have macros or inline if/else expressions, so there is simply no way to emulate ternary logic in a performant manner :-(

[jonahx]

Oh let's be very clear: Go is actively, explicitly anti-FP, anti-expressiveness, anti-brevity. Those are simply not its values. And any attempts to write Go in FP style will be considered unidiomatic Go.

And the missing ternary will be the least of your problems. Do you enjoy `map` and `filter`? Sorry, the "go way" is to use a for loop every time. Reimplementing map on every type where you need it is considered best practice in Go. Have a problem with that? Expect a snarky comment about your priorities.

This can all be pretty frustrating when you've experienced the joys of more expressive languages.

Go has good concurrency primitives and is fast. That's what it's good at. Those are the reasons to use it. Temper your expectations accordingly.

[Merovius]

> Have a problem with that? Expect a snarky comment about your priorities.

Whereas your comment is completely devoid of snark.

[candiodari]

That comment, however, is a comment on hacker news.

Not the official docs of a programming language. In one of those, a bit of snark is really quite normal and of no real impact.