Thanks for your feedback. We'll correct that thing about Python as soon as possible. However please agree with me that with an educational background of C/C++, learning Go was easier than learning Python.
I used to be a C++ dev for 10 years. I tried to learn go after hearing about how great it is. IMO - it's a hot garbage practical joke made by googlers that became popular because it was made by googlers and then it was too late to tell its was a prank. It's a corrupt amalgam of "clever hacks" and "only one good way to do things - my way".
Its concurrency is awful, and makes shooting oneselves in a foot easy. Effective go teaching you how to basically make mutex using channels is just a practical joke, right?
Go's success in the cloud native infrastructure is really impressive - the language has enjoyed widespread adoption in many large engineering orgs. Having a hard time seeing where you're coming from when you talk about a "hot garbage practical joke"
JavaScript is an awful language, we all can agree on that, right? But it has reached universal adoption, it's widespread from in-app scripts, through embedded devices, back-end services and front-end.
I have the same opinion on Go - it's awful, it fails to deliver its promises, but it became popular because it was "a google thing".
Google itself supports go internally, but it is nowhere near being ubiquitous or even recommended - I think that tells you something about it too.
Ups! As you might have noticed, I'm a beginner on Python but that thing was REALLY annoying. Nice to know that you can use whatever number of spaces, but... consistency is hard to keep with spaces (I'm not able :/)
I'm not a big fan of python but I use it a lot for quick stuff, and syntax is just a non-issue. Any half-decent editor will handle that for you (and yes, this includes Vim).
Criticize the wonky static typing tools and I'm with you. Criticize the unpredictable performance and I'll join the choir. Criticize dependency management and I'll unleash my rage. But come on, this is just not a thing. IME even data analysts with non-cs backgrounds and very limited programming ability never see this as a problem.
It's fine if you don't like it (I prefer my {s as well!) but I'll be honest: it really feels like a nitpick.
As you said before, you can use tabs. You just need to use tabs everywhere (on Python 3, on Python 2 you can pretty much mix tabs and spaces, however this is a very bad idea).
I just started a month ago. Man, I literally became again a full time developer. No stress, only ideas, beautiful code that is a little bit verbose but really understandable. I think I could explain my code ELI7.
I recommend https://golangnews.com/ too, Not just because of its utility or that it has HN interface but also because Kenny Grant has been contributing to the Go ecosystem for a long time and his code is a pleasure to read.
Hello themodelplumber,
I'm OP, and the lead (volounteer) developer behind this project. I'm glad you found this project cool, although there are many issues and improvements to do. A given example is the UI that really seems too 90s for 2021 (but it works, and that's the most important thing).
Regarding wkhtmltopdf, yep! It's a nice tool :-) unfortunately we had to apply some hacks for PDF since wkhtmltopdf had a few bugs. We hope to fund some of its development because we need to keep it maintained.
