| > but it is being improved The things I care about can't be fixed, because they are fundamentally wrong in Go, they are not just some little oversight. > I already prefer it over many other languages. If I would start aiming low enough, I could also certainly find languages which are even worse than Go. Honestly, I don't care. I prefer languages which do things better than X, not languages which are less worse than X. > You mean... [...] Eh no? I meant what I said. If the people who created Go wouldn't have been able to leverage the Google name (either by working at a company or by Google saying "don't use our brand for your toy projects") nobody would have cared. But people said "OMG, Google invented online search!!! Then–by definition–they have to be language design experts, too!!!" and the tragedy unfolded. |
Just out of curiosity, what language(s) do you prefer to use over Go?
> Eh no? I meant what I said. If the people who created Go wouldn't have been able to leverage the Google name (either by working at a company or by Google saying "don't use our brand for your toy projects") nobody would have cared.
I have a very good counter-example for you. Google also made Dart. I have no interest in Dart and I don't think it's anywhere near as good as Go from what I can tell about it.