• xmunk
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    10 months ago

    You’ll go fmt and you’ll like it. Go has the single easiest to Google name of any programming language. Thou shalt not question golang decisions.

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      Go has the single easiest to Google name of any programming language.

      Ackchually Screenshot_20240215-004708_Mull

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        C is also bad - but I do think .Net takes the cake. I’m willing to give C a pass though since it existed before we had search engines… Go was specifically developed at Google so there’s no excuse.

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        it’s like half the number of keystrokes

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      I’m gonna name some language “``` head -n1 /dev/random | base64 ``” so it’s easy to search

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        I’m a cruel person - so I’ve been contemplating naming a language .NET

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      I ran across an old Stackoverflow question from many years ago where someone asked a question about types and wondered if generics could solve it. There was a very high-minded, lengthy reply that Go does not have generics, because that makes the language small and clean.

      Since then, Go has implemented generics. Because who the hell wants a strongly typed language without generics on this side of 2010?

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        I honestly only think generics made it into Go because the designers started getting embarrassed by the solution to nearly every problem being “create an empty interface”.

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        on this side of 2010?

        On this side of 1990. I’m not saying C++ did this right, but it embraced the idea that maybe the compiler could do a little more for us. And every time someone fielded a new language with some traction, eventually they added generics or just used duck-typing from the start.

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      I thought everyone else just did what I do – if there’s a squiggle, take away the squiggle part. If something’s missing, make a blank line and then blindly bounce on the tab key until Copilot fixes it.

      That’s step 1, and if that doesn’t work, step 2 is to actually look at what’s going on and try to fix it.

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      You bring back my bad memories of having to implement a server program in rust and all my searches ended up with about 1/3 useful results and the rest being hosting options for rust gameservers