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I did not cared about Git, Mercurial was my friend, until I got dragged into Git.

I got disappointed with what Go might have been, and tried to ignore it as much as I could, although still thinking it is kind of ok for C like programs, now with Kubernetes infecting my world, I slowly feel the need to just suck it up with Go.

This is why one cannot have nice things.

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You and I have disagreed on Go in the past, and I appreciate people’s criticism for Go. The type system isn’t the elegant algebraic ideal that many of us have, and it’s not even the messy generic implementation that many of us are familiar with (a la Java et al). The thing one must confront is that Go is designed to be a pragmatic software engineering language, and type systems (or really any individual in-language feature) simply aren’t going to make a big difference in most projects. The things that matter are tooling, ecosystem, learning curve, deployment story, standardization, etc and Go really shines in these regards. Go mostly gets out of your way and it will steer you toward the happy path, which can be really grating if you have strong preferences (Go values standardization above individuality, personal flourishes, and ego). That said, Rust does a very good job of being pragmatic while also allowing for more personalization, elegance, and so on, so I expect it will gain market share.

I remember a language designed 25 years ago with those goals, it just failed because Bell Labs were no longer cool.

You shit on Go with almost every post you make. Give it a fucking rest.

It is hard to do that when not using it isn't an option.

Not everyone that has to deal with Docker and Kubernetes jumps of joy dealing with the Go ecosystem.

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