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> having golang as primary lang in your stack is the bulletproof way to suck all the joy out of daywork

Huge disagree. Working with Golang is amazing to me: you actually get to spend time thinking high level instead of low level unless it’s needed for business reasons. And when you need to think low level, there’s no 100 ways to do, everything is reasonable.

I get shit done fast, efficiently, and writing good code (easy to read, maintain, test refactor and extend) is easy as hell. Whenever I go back to a Go code base I’ve not touched in years, I’m impressed at how everything still works with no trouble at all and how fast it it is to dig in and be productive.

In comparison I’ve recently picked up a React code base from 2 years ago that I was pretty proud of, and… it doesn’t even build anymore. I spent a day trying to fix the dependencies but wasn’t able to succeed yet. I’ve had similar experiences with Python code bases too.

You’re talking about maps.contains as an example and I used to agree with the sentiment, but in the end it doesn’t matter. I sometimes spend 2 minutes writing a contains method, so what? It’s never been a real issue in my experience.