We all have our own particular axes to grind but even me, someone who is language agnostic, is getting tired of the tone of those submissions.
The problem is that he’s writing interesting, informed commentary on topics that are hot button issues for people who are a tad over-sensitive about their career choices :)
You can be a happy Go programmer, whilst also recognising that the language has limitations & things it’s really not good at. That would be the mature, honest response to these articles. What is not a mature, honest reponse is DDOSing the guy because you (the generic you, not you specifically hnlmorg!) don’t like his opinions.
The problem is the author preemptively shrugged off those responses by ostensibly accusing those coders of having Stockholm Syndrome.
It was content like that which caused the issues. Regardless of whether it’s eloquent trolling or just a genuine but passionate piece, it was touching on an already hot topic with poor consideration about how it would be received.
And that’s fine for a personal blog. But when you then see your articles explode online and then proceed to write follow up pieces in the same tone and intended for the same audience (regardless of whether he directly submitted it to HN), it’s harder to dismiss as someone not trying to exploit flame wars to booster their own blogs traffic.
I guess they succeeded in that too; albeit a DDoS attack wasn’t quite what they intended.
To be clear, I don’t agree with the DDoS attack. Nor do I believe they deserved it (what they actually deserved was just for the articles to get flagged and forgotten) but I can still blame the author for the arguments on here when they saw the existing discourse and decided to write follow up pieces of equally antagonistic tones.
> I can still blame the author for the arguments on here when they saw the existing discourse and decided to write follow up pieces of equally antagonistic tones.
seems very victim blaming to me.
Amos’ articles are opinionated, well written & amusing rants. If a bunch of immature Go programmers can’t take a spot of criticism directed at their favourite language then that says a lot more about them than it does about anyone else.
Given HN is the victim in that context, that would mean my statement is the literal opposite of victim blaming.
Funny because he works for fly.io which explain all the Rust thing but doesn't fly.io use a lot of Go as well indirectly?
https://fasterthanli.me/articles/lies-we-tell-ourselves-to-k...
"It may well be that Go is not adequate for production services unless your shop is literally made up of Go experts (Tailscale) or you have infinite money to spend on engineering costs (Google)."
You should tell that to the thousand of compagnies running Go just fine in production.