| > Disclosure: I was on the Go team at Google until earlier this month. Dealing with DeVault's bad faith arguments is one of the few things I won't miss of that job. Speaking of bad faith arguments, aren't Google and its employees the ones that: - Claimed that scrolling screenshot on Android are "infeasible" [INFEAS] despite Samsung, LG, HTC, etc. already implementing the feature in their forks/distributions of Android? - Claimed "[t]he generic dilemma is this: do you want slow programmers, slow compilers and bloated binaries, or slow execution times?" as an excuse for not implementing Generics in Go? - After years of claiming this nonsense finally implemented Generics in exactly those ways? [GoLang_GenImpl] - Even when implementing Generics in exactly those old and previously known ways claim that "Russ Cox famously observed that generics require choosing among slow programmers, slow compilers, or slow execution times. We believe that this design permits different implementation choices." [GoLang_43651] - "Loses" or "loses track" of their customer's mobile phones, and when said customers cancel the credit charges for the phones they never received or otherwise disappeared, block their Google accounts, including their access to email? [Google_Criminals] Drew DeVault certainly deserves some or even a lot of criticism, but Google and its employees attacking other for "bad faith"? This should be acceptable in a civilized society. [GoLang_43651]: https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/refs/heads/master/des... [Google_Criminals]: For example: https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/7nrx07/google_... and https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/84sysx/update_... There have been other documented cases of the same so this is not a single uncharacteristic incident. [GoLang_GenImpl]: https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/e0113ba8479092562cf9d... [INFEAS]: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/80491647#:~:text=Stat... |