I do not mean to flame or anything but why is ARS's article upvoted to front page when we already have one [1] on the same topic with 250+ comments? It doesn't even provide any additional information. I have seen a similar trend with a lot of topics.
Actually it's not. Go! is a totally different language.
But more on topic. This has happened ever since I first started frequenting this site in 2009 (2008?). People upvote links that interest them almost without regard to whether it's already on the frontpage. Personally, I like it. When the first article on topic A gets posted and you get 300 comments, it becomes unwieldy to join in the conversation. The other discussions tend to focus on other issues with topic A or are simply easier to join in on since there are fewer comments overall.
Are you going to be at the Erlang User Conference next month? I will enjoy putting messages in your inbox while you fail fast attempting to walk and drink at the same time.
Aaron Swartz was the same. Almost the entire page was filled with articles offering different perspectives, from Lessig, Cory Doctorow, TarenSK, Quinn Norton, NYT..
There are a few reasoned criticisms from the Erlang camp about Go not copying some bits and pieces from Erlang that might have been worthwhile that are worth reading.
> reasoned criticisms from the Erlang camp about Go not copying some bits and pieces from Erlang that might have been worthwhile that are worth reading.
would you mind pointing those out please ? thank you !
thank you ! spent the last 45 minutes just reading the posts by 'jerf', and as he most humbly points out:
Go advocates desperately, desperately need to avoid the temptation to explain to themselves why Erlang isn't as good, because then they'll fail to learn the lessons that Erlang learned the easy way. There's a lot of ways to improve on Erlang, but let me tell you that despite those opportunities, Erlang as a language is one of the wisest languages around, you do not want to try to exceed it by starting from scratch. Learn from it, please, I want a better Erlang than Erlang, but talking yourself into how Go is already better than Erlang isn't going to get you there.
Here is a rant from me ... there is no effortless way to put mysql results into map [string]interface{} (equivalent to mysql_fetch_assoc) with built in typing. You get []byte and have to cast and scan everything yourself. Also go is hard to serach for in google and google groups where golang nuts are - they are as pleasurable for searching and finding info as a kick in the balls.
Apart from that the language is very solid and has some nice decisions made about it.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5701630