On Wednesday, 13 November 2013 at 09:12:40 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
On Wednesday, November 13, 2013 09:51:33 Paulo Pinto wrote:
On Wednesday, 13 November 2013 at 08:39:06 UTC, logicchains
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 13 November 2013 at 07:55:59 UTC, Froglegs
> wrote:
>> Go is a boring language, kind of like Dart, I guess Google
>> just sucks at language design? The do use an awful lot of
>> Java, perhaps it has caused irreparable damage
>
> If you were working in an Enterprise (TM) with coworkers who
> were potentially competence-challenged, would you want them
> having access to the power of D's compile time code
> generation?
> Would you like to read and debug code that randomly
> intermingled D's different function call methods; having to
> determine whether foo.bar represents calling the bar method
> of
> foo, calling the function bar with foo as an argument, or
> accessing the field bar on object foo?
Speaking from my enterprise seat, there are lots of
"potentially
competence-challenged coworkers" in off-shore projects.
Maybe Google's target audience?
This conversation definitely seems to be taking a turn for the
worse. Go was
created by folks who believe in its goals and paradigms and
believed that they
could better serve those by creating a new language than by
using existing
ones. As I understand it, it was completely an
engineering-driven solution and
not business-driven at all. Google really had very little to do
with its
creation. It's just that the engineers who created it happened
to be working
at Google. And while we may not like the direction that Go went
in, that
doesn't mean that it's worthless or primarily intended to
prevent bad
programmers from fouling things up. Clearly, it does a good
enough job that
many programmers have taken a liking to it and written good,
useful programs
in it.
Personally, I have no interest in it and think that its
designers made some
very poor choices, but that doesn't mean that we should be
making fun of it or
make fun of Google for being the place where the engineers who
created it
work. The fact that Google let its engineers spend company time
on creating a
new programming langueg says very good things about Google,
even if the
language itself ultimately isn't what we'd like.
- Jonathan M Davis
Point taken. I should have thought better before posting. Just
got carried away due to some of our project's status.
Sorry about that and my excuses to anyone that felt bad with my
remark.
Despite my critic, I do see lots of use cases where Go might be
useful and would happily used it over C, although D would be even
better. :)
No more replies from me on this thread.
..
Paulo
