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

[Philip Durbin]

Heh. Sorry for the click bait. :)
On Oct 3, 2015 6:24 PM, "Michael Bar-Sinai" <mich.barsinai at me.com> wrote:

> 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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