[codecraft] Go Will Dominate the Next Decade | Ian Eyberg | LinkedIn

[Michael Bar-Sinai]

Jeeeeeez, man. I was actually looking forward to reading this, and finally came to it.
What a load of...

First, the guy is founder of DeferPanic which is, in their own words:

What's DeferPanic
We're on a mission to ensure your success with Go with the right tooling and phenomenal support.

Not the best way to ensure a balanced view. In his defense, he's certainly on a mission.

Then, he completely lost me at:

When I was younger C++ was commonly derided as the language that incompetent C programmers used. Then came Java. Not a big improvement.

Srsly!?!? Java was not a big improvement over C++? First, I'm not sure that it was even supposed to improve C++ at all, but the introduction of a VM, a garbage collector, a full-blown object-oriented system (C++ allows it, but it's not the default, hence the "virtual" keyword), all packaged in a balanced way that's actually accepted by the industry?

That's not saying the Go is not interesting. I assume it is. But it's not the only interesting thing around, and I don't trust this guy's judgment, or data.

And re: the JVM Sith Lord, thats totally style-over-substance, which normally means there's no substance. I've learned that at a student exchange semester at UTME (that's University of Tatooine, Mos Eisley).

-- Michael

> On 26 Sep 2015, at 23:00, Philip Durbin <philipdurbin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/go-dominate-next-decade-ian-eyberg?redirectFromSplash=true
> 
> "Ruby is clearly done. Javascript is misguided and python is held up on stilts by the data scientists. The JVM Sith Lord has your neck and .Net was recently open sourced in an attempt to remain relevant.
> 
> Go is the future. Go is your future. You have a choice.
> 
> Go Will Dominate the Next Decade."
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