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[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 33 points 9 months ago (7 children)

You'll go fmt and you'll like it. Go has the single easiest to Google name of any programming language. Thou shalt not question golang decisions.

[–] fl42v@lemmy.ml 34 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Go has the single easiest to Google name of any programming language.

Ackchually Screenshot_20240215-004708_Mull

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 21 points 9 months ago

C is also bad - but I do think .Net takes the cake. I'm willing to give C a pass though since it existed before we had search engines... Go was specifically developed at Google so there's no excuse.

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 16 points 9 months ago

it's like half the number of keystrokes

[–] 30p87@feddit.de 20 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm gonna name some language "``` head -n1 /dev/random | base64 ``" so it's easy to search

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm a cruel person - so I've been contemplating naming a language .NET

[–] massive_bereavement@kbin.social 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You wouldn't dare! Nobody's that evil..

[–] 30p87@feddit.de 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

At least it isn't confused with a certain Java clone by an evil company or ++ version of itself or not acknowledged at all, because it is just named after a single character, like C for example...

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

a certain Java clone by an evil company

Because Oracle are the good guys now?

[–] 30p87@feddit.de 2 points 9 months ago

Never said that Oracle isn't evil, just pointed out M$ is extra evil

[–] dan@upvote.au 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Java clone by an evil company

... J++? Visual J#?

[–] uis@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago
[–] RustyNova@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

Ah yes. The good old go figure --it out

[–] frezik@midwest.social 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I ran across an old Stackoverflow question from many years ago where someone asked a question about types and wondered if generics could solve it. There was a very high-minded, lengthy reply that Go does not have generics, because that makes the language small and clean.

Since then, Go has implemented generics. Because who the hell wants a strongly typed language without generics on this side of 2010?

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago

I honestly only think generics made it into Go because the designers started getting embarrassed by the solution to nearly every problem being "create an empty interface".

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

on this side of 2010?

On this side of 1990. I'm not saying C++ did this right, but it embraced the idea that maybe the compiler could do a little more for us. And every time someone fielded a new language with some traction, eventually they added generics or just used duck-typing from the start.

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 4 points 9 months ago

I thought everyone else just did what I do -- if there's a squiggle, take away the squiggle part. If something's missing, make a blank line and then blindly bounce on the tab key until Copilot fixes it.

That's step 1, and if that doesn't work, step 2 is to actually look at what's going on and try to fix it.

[–] Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 9 months ago

You bring back my bad memories of having to implement a server program in rust and all my searches ended up with about 1/3 useful results and the rest being hosting options for rust gameservers

[–] pkill@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago

gofumpt's even beter, also golaegci-lint-langserver