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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

C: What if you used emojis for pointer (*) and deref (&) signs?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

make is inevitable, because everything is a dependency.

There is no wisdom, no truth, only endless dependencies. /s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I guess that's why I enjoyed working with Go so much.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

100% serious, because my next job uses Go - Why? Everything is painful and takes way more code than it should.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Its compiler is very fast, the libraries are great, importing new packages is easy and straightforward, HTTP libraries and frameworks are some of the best I've worked with.

Compared to Java or C#, there really isn't that much boilerplate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Why is "the compiler is very fast" a good argument though? I'd rather the compiler spends 1 minute and does it well and optimized instead of 10 seconds and I have to write Go, honestly.

In many cases, for many things, compiling isn't the part that takes the longest in development anyway.

There are some great aspects to Go, like how you can map fields of a struct to json properties for Marshal/Unmarshalling and channels is an interesting idea, but other than that it doesn't seem to me like there's a lot of pros over, say, C# which is almost ubiquitous in many industries these days.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

go is more like simpler C, zig (will be (hopefully)) more like better C

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What would the Swift entry say if there was one?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

"What if we pretend people trust Apple?"