[apta]

It's how basically the entire language is, they keep reinventing the wheel, only in a subpar way and market it as if it's some breakthrough, and people who don't know better drink the Koolaid. golang wouldn't have gone anywhere if it didn't have the Google name behind it. Did you even notice how verbose the testing code was in that post?

[mirceal]

we should form a club or something. we’ll call it the gopher 8th light seekers and drink sparkling water + bitch about go while the rest invent the future. in go :)

[apta]

hah. What kind of future are you talking about? :P It still seems that Java and C# and python are dominant in their respective areas, and golang being relegated to devops stuff, those guys can deal with all the shortcomings of the language because they don't know better, but at least it's not infiltrating other areas. Ironic that the golang authors wrote it as a C++ replacement and it completely flopped there, just shows how out of touch from reality they are.

[mirceal]

the “future”. the one with flying cars and strong AI and aliens. where everything compiles instantly and we laugh at peasants that worry about dependency management and sanity.