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“Go’s design is a disservice to intelligent programmers”

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131 points apta | 1 comments | 25 Mar 15 21:48 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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deedubaya ◴[25 Mar 15 22:18 UTC] No.9266392[source]▶
The author is basically saying that you'll be better off banging your head against a wall trying to figure out a more complicated language than to pick up golang quickly an start building something.

News flash! Not everyone is a brilliant developer. And that's okay!

News flash! Not ever developer has extensive programming experience and can pick up new concepts quickly. And that's okay!

Go is too simple for you? Drink a big glass of shut the hell up and go write a program in brainfuck or something.

Intelligent programmers aren't dependent on the language they use to become better developers. There is no disservice in being able to build something quickly.

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1. moron4hire ◴[26 Mar 15 00:18 UTC] No.9266987[source]▶
Syntactically simple language actually tend to be harder for new/less-skilled programmers, as they require the programmer to figure out how to do more things that more complex languages handle as simple expressions.