Hi guys. What are your thoughts about Go? I'm thinking of learning it as my first serious programming language (I have some programming knowledge, but never learned anything deeply). Or maybe it's better learn something more "traditional" like Ruby?
Golang
Caleb Brown
Isaac Allen
bump
Jose Harris
> go
> serious
kys
Evan Powell
What's wrong with Go?
William Williams
Benjamin Sullivan
I like it. It's similar to other languages in the C family so your knowledge should easily translate to a lot of other languages. I suggest learning C after you get used to Go.
Anthony Wood
lol no generics
Blake Gray
Im doing the same OP, It seems great so far.
Brody Wilson
>meme, the language
Connor Nelson
Oh, cool. It's your first language?
Dylan Martinez
When I read about D I spotted a lot of similarities to Go, as if someone ripped off D when designing Go.
Gavin Roberts
D tries hard to be as close to C++ possible hence the name D, the fact that you think D is like Go is why I never bother posting in these brainlet threads
Luke Lewis
Here's a real answer
- Easy to pick up
- Web performant
- Readable
-No frills, you hit feature walls unlike some more complex languages
-Opinionated, some people like this some people don't
- Easy to use concurrency if you do it right
- Great networking standard library
Luis Bailey
The package management is retarded
the GOPATH is retarded
lol no generics
but golang is actually okay
Charles Campbell
Also, go2 is trying to solve some issue some people have
- Go now has a dependency management system of sorts so gopath is no longer needed
- Proposals for generics and improved error handling, among others.
Christian Roberts
/thread
Brandon Cook
OO is wrong, OO has held back programming for over 30 years now. Go decouples functions from data.
anyone who says that Go lacks generics is a shill or too stupid to use Go. Go will never have generics because its a data oriented language which does not tie methods to data
Kayden Cruz
It's a dumbed down langauge, the java of our time, it's a language for project leaders not coders, you should feel insulted.
Asher Lee
IMO, I wouldn't recommend Go as a "first" language. I do like it, though.
C/C++/Javascript/Python are better imo
Realistically, you should look at languages as "tools" to solving a problem. What do you want to create OP? Then pick the best language that will help you create whatever you want.
> better learn something more "traditional" like Ruby?
lol no
Jacob Johnson
Please never use 'Go' and 'serious' in the same sentence.
Go learn C# if you want a serious first language.
Mason Peterson
What u did there
I sees it