[djmdjm]

Whenever I see someone dismiss the work of obviously smart people as "trash" then I just assume they are 1) arrogant and 2) usually missing the point.

E.g. complaining about the capitalisation of intermediate output is just pure whining. It's not a substantial criticism at all.

I'll note that the BSD ports of golang were brought up without any of this nasty complaint, even the OpenBSD one :)

[4ad → djmdjm]

Well, I brought up the Solaris port, and I don't have any complaint. I wrote about the experience in the previous HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8817568

[astletron]

"I should mention that I have no real opinion on the language itself; I’m not a languages person (C will do, thanks), and that’s not the part of the system I have experience with anyway. Rather, the runtime and toolchain are the parts on which I wish to comment."

Might I suggest changing the title of this post to "the golang runtime and toolchain are trash"?

[mathgeek → astletron]

That wouldn't be nearly as clickbaity, though.

[4ad]

Obligatory response by Russ Cox: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8817990

[SixSigma]

> it would have been much better to simply reuse what already exists

The toolchain has existed for over 20 years in Plan9

[sanxiyn]

Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8815778

[tyho]

Seems down for me, mirror:

http://dtrace.org.nyud.net/blogs/wesolows/2014/12/29/golang-...

[matthewmacleod]

I didn't really watch the development of Go, but is there any reason the toolchain wasn't built on top of LLVM from the start?

[rcarmo]

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8815778

Sometimes down-toning titles doesn't work out right.

[andrewstuart]

Grandstanding.

[notacoward]

Here's what real trash looks like.

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