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flere-imsaho

@alcinnz @davidgerard i might not have a stake in go directly, but i will sure as hell discourage anyone who asks from using it for future projects (if this passes).

12 Feb 2023 at 17:21 | Wall-to-wall | Open on circumstances.run
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Adrian Cochrane

@mawhrin @davidgerard Personally Go was never my taste in language...

They advertised themselves on their elegant design, but they don't strike me as anything special there. And they have some of the same footguns as C.

12 Feb 2023 at 17:24 | Open on floss.social
RAK

@alcinnz: I recall seeing jokes that Go was ALGOL 68+41.

12 Feb 2023 at 21:24 | Open on fosstodon.org
mathew

@raktheundead @alcinnz Go really is a descendant of Modula and Oberon, which are descended from Algol; and it has CSP-like features taken from SuperPascal and Joyce. Robert Griesemer, who now works on Go, worked on Oberon. The rest of the syntax is from the Unix and Plan-9 people.

youtube.com/watch?t=17m50s&v=0

12 Feb 2023 at 23:58 | Open on universeodon.com
The Doctor

@alcinnz @mawhrin @davidgerard It was kind of nice right before they decided to make it look more like C++17.

12 Feb 2023 at 21:43 | Open on hackers.town
Vertigo #$FF
jollyrogue

@drwho The clean, simplicity is what I like(d?) about Go. It got many things correct. Then Ken Thompson retired, and the team decided Go needed to be web scale.

“Googled” should replace“ Rube Goldberg Machine” in the lexicon.

@alcinnz @mawhrin @davidgerard

13 Feb 2023 at 7:19 | Open on bsd.network
Klampfradler 🎸🚴

@mawhrin @alcinnz @davidgerard Also if it doesn't pass.

Look closely. The whole ecosystem is entirely, well, Google.

12 Feb 2023 at 19:16 | Open on floss.social
Adrian Cochrane

@Natureshadow @mawhrin @davidgerard There is a lot of nice networking software written in Go... For some reason or other...

I do use some of it!

12 Feb 2023 at 19:26 | Open on floss.social
flere-imsaho

@alcinnz @Natureshadow @davidgerard and my favourite ansible secret storage backend (gopass). anyways, the company i work for depends on google's existence, so i'm not going to go all righteous on all google products. but i can grumble re: technical choices in a limited field, and i will, and there's a limited chance it could've been heard.

12 Feb 2023 at 19:29 | Open on circumstances.run
Klampfradler 🎸🚴

@mawhrin @alcinnz @davidgerard I never got the point of gopass. I mean, it's just pass, rewritten for no reason at all with no benefits at all.

12 Feb 2023 at 19:32 | Open on floss.social
flere-imsaho

@alcinnz @Natureshadow @davidgerard very likely you didn't need the multiuser capabilities; as i said, “ansible secret store” is my gopass use case.

i know this can be done with regular pass, but gopass greatly lowers the entry barrier for multiple users and makes onboarding new ones easier.

(and yes, there are other password stores, but with ansible/gopass i can automatically read and generate secrets as needed, and reliably encrypt them and store them in a remote shared repository without spinning up and maintaining hashicorp's vault, and that covers my particular needs 100%.)

@alcinnz @Natureshadow @davidgerard very likely you didn't need the multiuser capabilities; as i said, “ansible secret store” is my gopass use case.

i know this can be done with regular pass, but gopass greatly lowers the entry barrier for multiple users and makes onboarding new ones easier.

(and yes, there are other password stores, but with ansible/gopass i can automatically read and generate secrets as needed, and reliably encrypt them and store them in a remote shared repository without spinning up and

12 Feb 2023 at 19:42 | Open on circumstances.run
Klampfradler 🎸🚴

@alcinnz @mawhrin @davidgerard I do as well. Seems I need to stop.

(Although as a fun fact, a long-standing network bug is actually something else that drives me away from Go... github.com/golang/go/issues/52 has put an important project on hold here, and now I will just rewrite in Rust instead 🤷)

12 Feb 2023 at 19:31 | Open on floss.social
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