Re: [go-nuts] Go is easy to lean. But other languages are hard to forget

2020-10-05 Thread Andy Hall
thankfully I chose to learn go as my first language...so all good then :-) On Monday, October 5, 2020 at 10:23:32 AM UTC+1 era...@gmail.com wrote: > I believe all these are statements of facts based on practical > observations that one finds out that to learn GO one needs to unlearn and > then

Re: [go-nuts] Go is easy to lean. But other languages are hard to forget

2020-10-05 Thread Ehioje Henry Erabor
I believe all these are statements of facts based on practical observations that one finds out that to learn GO one needs to unlearn and then learn again. For GO, that is indeed the way to GO. On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 12:21 AM Tyler Compton wrote: > I wonder if mailing lists for all languages get

Re: [go-nuts] Go is easy to lean. But other languages are hard to forget

2020-10-04 Thread Tyler Compton
I wonder if mailing lists for all languages get posts like this :) Working in Go is great, but every language has sharp corners. Language design is a tricky balancing act of trade-offs, and I don't think Go or any other language is above that. On Sun, Oct 4, 2020 at 1:25 PM Amnon wrote: > Go is

[go-nuts] Go is easy to lean. But other languages are hard to forget

2020-10-04 Thread Amnon
Go is a beautifully simple language. It is easy to learn. Most programmers can learn to write working production code within a day. But learning Go is the easy thing. It is much much harder to liberate yourself from the conceptual baggage that you have inherited from languages in your past.