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by BrandoElFollito 1407 days ago
I agree with you completely.

I am in IT/dev for 35 years and love to discover new stuff, and to help others to start. I am a HUGE fan of what I call "bootstrapping" knowledge.

Say I know Python and want to code in Go. I craft a question that shows that I understand the problem but could not find the documentation that would explain this in Go. This is obviously not "how to assign a variable" but rather "how to asses the kind of error returned by the function" (in Python you would do that with an exception, in Go this is borderline voodoo to understand that the error is because there is no network, rather than a DNS issue for instance).

I then get either downvoted because my question is not elitist enough, or someone plays kindergarten teacher by saying "you have toooo ... u... un... unwraaaa...?"

These people are fucking annoying and the site become s shitshow (yes - I am looking at you Stack Overflow questions tagged with golang)

Just say "you need to unwrap the error by doing this and that, the documentation is here). I do not want them to explain me what an error is, or why there can be many, or the philosophical religion of the one who coded it that way. I. Just. Want. To. Start. Somewhere.