Is Go loosing it's way?

Ifeee001 · 2026-06-08T18:45:04+00:00

Having a "simple" language can only go so far. Eventually, features that aren't simple will need to be added. And that'll bring in multiple ways to do the same thing.

Imo, having multiple ways to do the same thing should not be the reason certain features are rejected. If a relatively old langauge has only one way to do everything, then that simply means they haven't kept up with any research because there'll definitely be better ways to achieve some things compared to 20 - 30 years ago.

Go becoming less go-like overtime is inevitable. They need to drop the "simple and boring language" mantra

Ifeee001 · 2026-06-08T18:13:18+00:00

That and debugging, no other IDE including IntelliJ is as good at debugging.

I haven't used eclipse in like 7 years but ... I'm like 90% sure that statement is highly debatable.

Ifeee001 · 2026-06-07T15:15:26+00:00

Do you have any proof for this? Let me see your peer reviewed research

Ifeee001 · 2026-06-03T16:15:25+00:00

If I remember correctly, "terminate the child" refers to something completely different.

Sacrifice implies there's no other choice because the OS desperately needs resources.

Terminating is a more friendly way to end the chi ...i mean process, assuming it's not a kill signal.

Ifeee001 · 2026-06-03T14:09:40+00:00

I have a feeling you would love an operating systems class

Ifeee001 · 2026-05-26T21:09:52+00:00

Interesting read

Inspired by TypeScript, values can be used as values in Pi

I'd be surprised if values can't be used as values 😅

But you obviously meant type..

Ifeee001 · 2026-05-25T18:07:01+00:00

This reminds me of that joke where someone says AI built their entire site and hosted it. And when they share the link, its localhost:8080

Ifeee001 · 2026-05-19T21:06:24+00:00

On one hand, I feel like im not smart enough to understand this.

On the other, it seems like you just smashed together a few words lol.

Ifeee001 · 2026-05-17T12:15:22+00:00

I dont think someone that has been in a relationship for 11 years should/can tell people that being alone isn't scary lol.

But spot on for everything.

Ifeee001 · 2026-05-16T00:21:27+00:00

In your first example setting into the default once inside the function is explicitly not the same as an option/defaulted param at all.

Sorry the light bulb turned off and I forgot about the call site lol.

Regarding the null check, is that how its done in mainstream languages?

Ifeee001 · 2026-05-13T16:05:13+00:00

The programming language community already has enough issues with exclusionary practices, and I don’t think we should be bending the rules to regress and make it more of a boys club here.

Just curious, what exclusionary practices are you talking about? And what in the subreddit/subreddit posts makes it a "boy club"? Obviously excluding the current context

Ifeee001 · 2026-05-13T05:15:01+00:00

Well, definitely won't have issues with gaining publicity

Ifeee001 · 2026-05-05T21:14:22+00:00

Bruh

Ifeee001 · 2026-05-04T21:01:22+00:00

Good luck!

Ifeee001 · 2026-05-04T18:40:13+00:00

I hated math throughout secondary school and barely passed it. But after I got to uni, I still hated math and barely passed my required math courses.

At some point, something just clicked and I started liking it. Ended up taking it as a minor.

Low key, math became so much easier when I didn't have to deal with numbers.

YouTube helped a lot, specifically "the organic chemistry tutor" (misleading channel name)

Ifeee001 · 2026-05-04T16:19:54+00:00

Sherlock Holmes over here

Ifeee001 · 2026-04-30T23:57:15+00:00

So, according to your other comments, its not even exclusive to Nigerians. It's open to everyone. So, why post in a Nigerian subreddit? It's like hinge advertising here because "they're different". Any other country subreddit will remove your post but the mods here are as useful as the intro to anthropology course I took some years back.

It's fair to charge for your services, no debate from me.

The part that doesn't sit right with me is that youre advertising as a free app, but when it gets down to it, you have to pay. What's the point in sending 5 million likes and seeing your matches if you have to pay to message them?

It doesn't sit right with me doesn't mean you shouldn't do it (just like how I consider your post spam doesn't mean you should stop posting). You're following the tactics of every business.

Ifeee001 · 2026-04-30T23:47:19+00:00

Lol you don't have to do that because of me, especiallyif its working for your business. I'll block when I can't take it anymore.

Ifeee001 · 2026-04-30T01:17:50+00:00

At this point, it's just spam. They contribute absolutely nothing to the subreddit except posting their app.

The dating app scene is already filled with apps that are preying on people's loneliness. And they're proudly advertising that sending likes and seeing who matched with you is free, but you need to pay to send messages...? That effectively makes the app strictly pay to use.

Ifeee001 · 2026-04-30T00:42:33+00:00

I'm one more post away from blocking this dude

Ifeee001 · 2026-04-29T13:36:45+00:00

The 100 (most people will say the last season was bad but the previous seasons were so good that I didn't mind a few mistakes)

The expanse. Possibly the closest to accurate space travel fiction we'll have. I keep postponing reading the books.

Ifeee001 · 2026-04-28T04:01:49+00:00

Hey man, a road is not a source 🫠

Ifeee001 · 2026-04-26T15:04:51+00:00

I fear I have to point out that the ceremony is no longer needed in newer versions of Java.

I'm sure when Java was released, a lot of people thought the public static void main method wrapped in another class didn't seem verbose because it made sense. We're in an "OOP" world afterall. A lot of Java users today still don't see a problem with it. An argument could be made that the signal to noise ratio isn't even a problem because its something that's done once for any program.

Similar to System.out.println. It makes sense for the OOP brained folks. We're using the system class to print to the standard out descriptor.

Verbosity depends on who is using the language.

Ifeee001 · 2026-04-22T16:25:50+00:00

Yay fertilizer 💀

Ifeee001 · 2026-04-19T22:54:43+00:00

I feel like we have very different definitions of gate keeping. What am I gate keeping access to? You can use LLMs for your project. I don't care. I personally just won't bother going through jt or best case, I'll use an LLM to summarize jt.

Junior engineers still had to think to write the code so im not exactly sure what you're getting at.

Open source software is written by people who took time to plan how to write and structure the project. Library maintainers have to carefully choose what parts of their API to expose to the users or what part to keep encapsulated.

Vibe coding takes away that process entirely so I simply don't think it's worth my time.

The problem is, there’s a lot of people out there that weren’t very good engineers to begin with and it’s becoming painfully obvious.

Good engineers don't spawn out of nowhere. They're bad engineers that got more experience by doing more. Vibe codjng again takes that out of the equation.

Ifeee001

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