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Using the language is not the same as understanding its design and being familiar with its implementation details.



True, yet I tend to read the specs, (bundled) libraries and compiler design docs of the languages I use, because I don't like to fly blind, if you pardon the term.

I didn't advance into stdlib and compiler yet (I'm a beginner in Go, I may say), but its behavior didn't disappoint me yet, and the specs make sense.

I have a couple of multithreaded tools on the roadmap, which will help me understand the gopher better.


It's a bad language with obtuse and verbose design, a caricature of Elixir, a mockery of Modula-2 and a cautionary tale of C.


Which I enjoy.

These things are subjective, and I agree to disagree.

Have a nice day :)


True. But writing short critical posts on HN isn't the same as understanding the language, either. Why should we believe your opinion on the language to be more correct than bayindirh's?

Frankly, you sound like a zealot, and I distrust zealots in the area of computer language design. (I distrust them in a lot of other areas, too.) I trust pragmatists a lot more.

You've shown off a decent vocabulary, but there's far more rant than substance. Got any substance to show us why we should listen to your opinion?




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