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jesseschalken
·9 giờ trước·discuss
So, no new programming languages until the end of time?
jesseschalken
·4 ngày trước·discuss
Yes, but at least now its memory safe.
jesseschalken
·4 ngày trước·discuss
> The sleight of hand misdirects the reader away from the main way bugs are eliminated: by dedicating engineering resources to it.

Why don't YOU spend the engineering resources to add RAII and a borrow checker instead of blaming your users?
jesseschalken
·2 tháng trước·discuss
Its absolutely laughable that Gophers act like their language solves concurrency when its actually worse than Java because it has data races. Go added nothing and moved backwards.

The language that actually solves concurrency is Rust, but they will never acknowledge that.
jesseschalken
·2 tháng trước·discuss
The single executable deployment hasn't been an advantage for a very long time. C# has Native AOT. Java/Kotlin/Scala have GraalVM native-image, plus Kotlin Native and Scala Native.

And of course there is Rust, which compared to Go has better performance, lower memory usage, smaller binaries, safe concurrency, safe resource handling, and a real type system with tagged unions.

The Go team built good tooling around a mediocre language. Now most other languages have caught up, and Gophers are left writing mind numbing `if err != nil` checks with no benefits left to show for it.
jesseschalken
·2 tháng trước·discuss
Go has plenty of hidden code paths in defer, panic and recover. You can minimise the use of those things, just like in other languages you can minimise use of try-catch in favour of a Result sum type, which is already better than Go's "multiple return that you have to pretend is a sum".
jesseschalken
·3 tháng trước·discuss
Yes, languages with very strong type systems like Rust are incredible when paired with an LLM. Just like chat bots have a calculator as a "tool" because they are not the best at calculation themselves, they need a type system to deterministically validate the safety and cohesion of the code they generate.

Its languages like C that you have to watch out for, because the LLM will gladly say "this is safe!" when its not.