I seem to recall one of go’s creators snapped back at a similar question about code duplication with “what’s the matter, are your fingers broken?”
I think that sums up the philosophy, though maybe not as well as “Nothing was achieved here”, which I would like to translate into Latin and get on some stickers.
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How much do you know about the authors of go? It is objectively untrue that they don’t understand computers.
Maybe just maybe, people with decades of software experience might understand that the weak link in software is the editor not the author, and are optimizing for different priorities than you have.
But mostly I wanna to say avoid assuming someone else doesn’t understand something because they didn’t do what you would do. You should always figures out what they were trying to do first.
Such a bizarre comment for a language designed - by the creator of Unix no less - to work well with tools and to be easily parsed. High likelihood it was posted from a Unix device too.
I think that sums up the philosophy, though maybe not as well as “Nothing was achieved here”, which I would like to translate into Latin and get on some stickers.