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

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131 points apta | 2 comments | 25 Mar 15 21:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.434s | source
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PopsiclePete ◴[25 Mar 15 22:48 UTC] No.9266559[source]▶
Ahhhh, he's a D programmer. That explains most of it. D programmers are only slightly behind C++ programmers in their universal hatred for Go. Rubyists can learn to love Go, Pythonistas can learn to love Go, NodeJs people even, but D programmers, man, it's like just the mere existence of Go is an assault on their very souls.

If D and C++ programmers hate Go, it's doing something right.

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1. Grue3 ◴[26 Mar 15 12:27 UTC] No.9269011[source]▶
No, it just means there is nothing in Go that would cause a D or C++ programmer to switch to it. The feature set of D and C++ is a superset of Go feature set.

This "they laughed at Einstein, so I must be right too" mentality is pure fanboyism.

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2. dvirsky ◴[30 Mar 15 15:09 UTC] No.9290014[source]▶
As a (mostly ex) C++ oriented engineer, there is a hell of a lot that would make me prefer Go to C++ for a lot of tasks. A language is not about its features, it's about how it facilitates what you need to get done.