On: Why I Don't Like Golang (2016)

[gerbilly]

My one line take on this:

You don't use Go for the language design, you use it for the tooling.

[Boxxed → gerbilly]

100% agreed -- it's crazy to me how much stuff you can just sweep under the rug when you have fast compilation, a decent debugger, static binaries, and so on.

I always tell people, "I love everything about Go except for the language."

[apta → Boxxed]

> have fast compilation, a decent debugger, static binaries, and so on.

See Java[1], C#[2]. Both have good compilation speeds (which don't really matter when you have incremental compilation anyway), as well strictly superior debuggers.

[1] https://quarkus.io/ [2] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/tools/ngen...

[Boxxed → apta]

Oh thanks, haven't heard of those languages.