Ten years of “Go: The good, the bad, and the meh”
Very insightful. Re: the generics point —<p>As a Go programmer I always thought the generics complaint was kind of silly in practice — complicated code should be simplified and made more concrete, not more generic.<p>I’m glad generics were implemented, if only to silence the chorus of people who didn’t even use Go but whined about the lack of them. Their inclusion has simplified the stdlib and led to some cool new functions. Nevertheless I think people implementing them in their own projects is basically code smell and they are a symptom of poorly thought-out code rather than excellent code.<p>Anyway. This was a good initial post and a good follow-up. Go is my favorite language out there right now for its clarity, power, and ease-of-use. And with loop variable capture coming (the biggest remaining foot gun in the language in my experience) the language is only getting better.