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[–] xmunk 33 points 11 months ago (7 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

Ackchually Screenshot_20240215-004708_Mull

[–] xmunk 21 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] sbv 16 points 11 months ago

it's like half the number of keystrokes

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] xmunk 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You wouldn't dare! Nobody's that evil..

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

At least it isn't confused with a certain Java clone by an evil company or ++ version of itself or not acknowledged at all, because it is just named after a single character, like C for example...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

a certain Java clone by an evil company

Because Oracle are the good guys now?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Never said that Oracle isn't evil, just pointed out M$ is extra evil

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Java clone by an evil company

... J++? Visual J#?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

Ah yes. The good old go figure --it out

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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?

[–] xmunk 4 points 11 months ago

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".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

gofumpt's even beter, also golaegci-lint-langserver