The Go Programming "Language"

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package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
	fmt.Println("Hello, 世界")
}

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Go is the hot new programming "language" that makes it easy to repeat yourself, prove just how much you hate C++, use your Java GC tuning experience, pretend you can scale, and get a new surprise every build based on which dependency randomly changed today.

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The "go" language is a mess

I have been using go for the past six months, in an effort to learn a new natively compiled language for high performance applications. I have been hoping that go was it - sadly, it is not.
Go is, frankly, a mess. One of its creators, Ken Thompson of Unix/C fame, called go an "experiment" - IMO, it is an experiment that produced Frankenstein's monster.

Published 25 December 2015

You Don't Like Google's Go Because You Are Small

When you look at Google's presentations about Go, they are not shy about it. Go is about very smart people at Google solving very BIG problems. They know best. If you don't like Go, then you are small and are solving small problems. If you were big (or smart), you would surely like it.

Published 17 February 2016