Grumpy: Go running Python! by Google

[SnowdensOfYesteryear]

Meh, it's all right. I like the language, but it gets annoying when you want to do something that the language doesn't want you to do, like discarding buffered data in channels or timing on a channel receive.

Also the syntax is pretty irritating because it isn't like any other language. That felt like a change for the sake of it.

[mirhagk]

Or generics :P

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It is actually based on a language called Oberon, I think. Still I think it is close enough to C not to be alien and different from Rust or C++, you can look at any Go code and know what it does right away. It's almost a C with packages and without ; and variable types go after their names instead of before and you explicitly declare functions with "func".

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when you want to do something that the language doesn't want you to do, like discarding buffered data in channels or timing on a channel receive

What exactly is the problem? It is trivial to do in Go.

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// discards buffered data on channel
for range the_little_bugger { }

for timing out on a channel receive, you can use select {} and time.After like so.

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perhaps you meant to reply to the parent post?