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by w-m 1892 days ago
How exemplary that he filled in the full template questionnaire for language changes, including questions such as "Would you consider yourself a novice, intermediate, or experienced Go programmer?" (he replied "I have some experience").
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IIRC Tim Berners-Lee also rather amusingly called himself a "Web Developer" at a conference.
There's a double connotation being played with there, a web developer vs the web developer
Yeah, I think that was the "rather amusingly" part.
He did develop the web.
I found it more amusing that he listed 8 languages that he has experience with and then went out of his way to exclude JavaScript.
When you know JavaScript enough to be able to say that you don't know JavaScript.
That's basically me and C++, and I suspect I am not alone
> Is this about generics?

> No.

Not sure why, but something about this being the (first part of the) last question he had to answer makes it quite funny to me.

When you have two questions about a specific feature that every change proposal must answer, it's a sign that something needs improvement.
Personally, I like the 100% correct answer to

Can you describe a possible implementation? (Yes.)

A couple years ago there was a clear shift in how the highest profile people in go core interact with the community. In the past it felt a bit one way. I have no idea what triggered the change, but it's definitely visible, and hugely positive imo.
There's the General who responds, "You don't need to see my ID. Don't you know who I am? Who's your CO?!"

And the General who responds, "Right. Well done."

Also good:

> What would change in the language spec?

> The new operator would get an optional second argument, and/or conversions would become addressible.

> [...]

> How would the language spec change?

> Answered above. Why is this question here twice?