programming language hot take 

go is not a good programming language

if you like using it that's fine but it has a lot of flaws

programming language hot take 

@typhlosion I am curious about some of these flaws. I have never touched Go but it comes up a lot when I mention Elixir

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@socks the big ones are no generics and clunky error handling

there's also dependency/version management, which... uh, there are like six or seven different dependency management tools for go, which i think speaks for itself

re: programming language hot take 

@typhlosion SIX dependency management tools? That's awful! We must develop a new tool to cover everyone's needs

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@socks @typhlosion The thing we've heard about it is it also tries to make everything Simple......at the cost of stuff breaking when things aren't /exactly right/.

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