[wereallterrrist]

Good one! Very funny!

/me remembers years of being gaslit by Gophers, of all stripes, for asserting that, no, unlike the cult of personality around Go, i did actually know what i was talking about when I said GOPATH was a nightmare in real world use (even better, it was plainly obvious even with pre-1.0 kubernetes). Just cringey.

For all the handwavey whinging about Rust, Gophers have treated me far more poorly over things that have been retconned and forgotten years later.

[zaphirplane]

> GOPATH was a nightmare in real world use … all the handwavey

I personally find people saying something is a garbage dump, nightmare and fire whatever Rather than explain the issue to be credibility reducing phrases

Don’t recall what gopath was sold as a fix for

[wereallterrrist]

LOL, I want to frame this comment. Abso-fucking-lutely stunning.

Thanks for ironically proving my point and demonstrating just how ignorant the criticism was.

I can't get my head around this. I describe a feature, that has long since been ret-conned from the community because it became such a thorn in everyone's side.

And you're just like "nah it probably wasn't that bad even though it was excised and is no longer talked about *and I can't even remember what it was for*" (despite being the exclusive only way to do local dep management). Stun-ning.

What is was "sold as a fix for"? Man, the hubris of people commenting on things literally completely ignorantly.

LOL, really didn't think I'd be gaslit about GOPATH in 2023. Brilliant, keep it up Gophers!

[zaphirplane]

My comment is not related to go, it’s about comments that use negative metaphors or hyperbole when criticizing something without making clear the issue.

Everyone hates, nightmares, dumpster fire, brain dead, useless, everyone knows, ignorant.Are examples.

Say someone writes “Working on Mac/Linux/windows is a nightmare”, ok … what does that convey ?

[aliqot]

Im not sure, when I see buzzwords like gaslighting or accusations of a racial or political nature I just stop interacting.

[wereallterrrist]

Ah yes, because teens on tiktok over use a word, you've decided every usage of the word is wrong and a sign to stop listening. And you seem to think disclosing that to people ... doesn't reflect poorly on you?

Feel free to google the word, then the behavior I described, then look at the peer comment where someone literally goes "idk what that long-since killed-off-thing was but you must be exaggerating".

[DangitBobby]

People explaining how easy it was to start a go project always had me scratching my head. What should the project layout be like? What the fuck is GOPATH and why do I care? Is GOHOME a thing? modules? Which one of these tutorials actually works? It's probably way better now but... yeah maybe Go tooling wasn't quite as solid as the messaging indicated.