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Why Golang Is Bad for Smart Programmers?

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impulser_ ◴[] No.37193726[source]
Go is the prefect enterprise language for much of the reason pointed out in this article. I think Google created it to essential turn programmers into high performance robots. You are very limited in what you can write. It's simple to read and learn. It's easy to deploy and maintain. It's pretty much fast by default. All the tooling is built into the language. It probably a great language to have a job in as well for these reason, but there is almost no room for fun and creativity in Go.

If you want to have fun and get creative programming no way you are picking Go. It has to be the most boring language I have ever used. I think that only cool thing I did in Go that made be say "Wow this is cool" was building code generation tools.

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1. daviddever23box ◴[] No.37199132[source]
Boring is good; languages are a tool for communication. If you want poetry, there are lots of side projects to create new dialects atop existing languages (including Go).