| Are you making the argument that Go is finally the magic language that can make bad devs write good code ? Let me be the realist here : it isn't. Go is just a very young language that, for the moment, only has developers that are curious and therefore either good or willing to learn. This has the additional consequence that for the moment the mailinglist is very helpful. History teaches us that both effects have nothing to do with the language and are temporary (unless the language never sees any "real" acceptance, like Haskell). You can look messages from some years back showing the same sentiment for Delphi, Visual Basic, Java, Python (especially Python had lots of people making this argument), ... And when those messages were posted, they were true. It didn't last long for any of them. > But people would struggle without Visual Studio debugging and a big run button. Sadly this is being used as an excuse for making language with substandard (to put it mildly) debugging facilities and editors. And of course, like for every other argument, the Go team itself is just being extremely arrogant about this. "Why do you want this ?" type responses, or just dead silence, or outright declaring the people asking the question to be substandard developers or some such. |