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Hate google, but I gotta respect #Issue9 (golang)'s heritage, with Kernighan and Pike involved.
Hare also looks like an interesting language.
Rust is way too popular. I default to distrust. XD
Bro, do you even Unix? đ€Šââïž
R.L. Dane 
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rld@Intrepid:~$ go --version |& head -1
flag provided but not defined: -version
rld@Intrepid:~$ go -version |& head -1
flag provided but not defined: -version
rld@Intrepid:~$ go -v |& head -1
flag provided but not defined: -v
rld@Intrepid:~$ go -V |& head -1
flag provided but not defined: -V
rld@Intrepid:~$ go version |& head -1
go version go1.24.9 freebsd/amd64
rld@Intrepid:~$
My own experience as an end-user on a pretty weak machine (low-end ARM CPU, 4GiB RAM):
C projects: effortless (once you find/install all the dependencies), instantaneous
C++ projects: takes some time, but not terrible. Same dependency-hunting issues as C, unless the project README is kind enough to provide package names
#Issue9 projects: go install https://example.com/foo/bar@latest; effortless and reasonably quick
Rust projects: run cargo with -j1 to constrain to a single thread to limit memory hogging, wait and pray. ;)
A dream. But mostly just vaporware. đ
P.S. It's an idea that some of us #polymaths had to create a new fediverse client (particularly for #GtS) for the terminal, likely in Go/#Issue9.
@dusnm gave us the inspiration to write it in Go, then quietly left before anyone assigned him any real work. >:)
(Just kidding, we all sat around, threw around some cool ideas, and then promptly did next to nothing. I think @sunarch did all the real organizational work; good on him)
lol at least you're honest about it.
rust bros be like, "If your CPUs aren't screaming and your laptop wrist rest getting soft from the heat, are you even compiling anything?!?" /s
Go's date format thingie is 1000% "tell me you don't think programmers can learn date (1) format strings without telling me you don't think programmers can learn date (1) format strings" XD
That and the whole #Issue9 debacle is a bit depressing, but I won't poop on your favorite language too much. It looks pretty cool overall.
My love for it might be explained by the fact that I was thrown into the deep end of being responsible for a bunch of really huge and clumsy shell scripts when I started my IT career nearly 25 years ago.
I can basically just sit and write shell as my native language.
Perl or possibly Python might be a lot better, hack even Go/#Issue9, but, yeah, I'm stuck with it, and I kinda love it, so...
Hey #LearningGo friends,
What do people think of the Coursera course, "Programming with Google Go Specialization?" >link<
Yeah, that last part is why I occasionally remember to add the #Issue9 hashtag, just to rub in the fact that that was the day we all realized they had turned evil.
But on the plus side, Kernighan and Thompson were heavily involved in it. I'm not saying that invalidates any other arguments against it, only that it gives me some hope that it won't be completely terrible ;)
