Guy makes a blog post about Go a few years ago. It gets posted here time and time again, not of his doing. A bunch of people challenge his premises, so he makes another post diving deeper into his arguments.
So what?
What's up with the literal hundreds of "Golang is amazing" posts this site has had? Is someone attempting to express dissent clearly that much of a bother?
What makes me angry about all this Go-bashing is that it might influence decision makers against moving from things like PHP or Node to Go - which I think would be an improvement, no matter how many flaws Go may or may not have.
It's just a language! Take it easy.
The guy is not "heaping on invectives" - he's not criticizing you or someone you care about. He's pointing out some flaws in a language in a sarcastic way.
"Mom smokes, so it's probably okay"
"I remember fondly the time an audience member asked the Go team "why did you choose to ignore any research about type systems since the 1970s"? (Emphasis his, not mine)
"It doesn't matter who points out that "maybe we shouldn't hit ourselves in the head with a rake repeatedly""
"Or you can be horrified, as you realize that those complex problems only exist because Go is being used."
"you adopted a language that happened by accident" (a direct criticism at Go users)
"Evidently, the Go team didn't want to design a language."
"Because it needed to be familiar to "Googlers, fresh out of school, who probably learned some Java/C/C++/Python" (Rob Pike, Lang NEXT 2014), it borrowed from all of these."
I just have up here. Do you really think a production conversation can start from this? ESR has flamed less haughtily.
"Mom smokes, so it's probably okay"
"I remember fondly the time an audience member asked the Go team "why did you choose to ignore any research about type systems since the 1970s"? (Emphasis his, not mine)
"It doesn't matter who points out that "maybe we shouldn't hit ourselves in the head with a rake repeatedly""
"Or you can be horrified, as you realize that those complex problems only exist because Go is being used."
"you adopted a language that happened by accident" (a direct criticism at Go users)
"Evidently, the Go team didn't want to design a language."
"Because it needed to be familiar to "Googlers, fresh out of school, who probably learned some Java/C/C++/Python" (Rob Pike, Lang NEXT 2014), it borrowed from all of these."
I just gave up here. Do you really think a production conversation can start from this? ESR has flamed less haughtily.