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   Graham Sutherland / Polynomial (gsuberland@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 26-Jul-2025 21:24:33 JST Graham Sutherland / Polynomial

   after recently reviewing a bunch of go I have concluded that I don't like go

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 26-Jul-2025 21:24:28 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     @gsuberland my feelings on it are an average of "this language was designed by someone whose head is still in the 80s" and "this language has an undercurrent of contempt for its user"

     i don't like it but i begrudgingly admit that it's harm reduction when the alternative is more c

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     Graham Sutherland / Polynomial (gsuberland@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 26-Jul-2025 21:24:30 JST Graham Sutherland / Polynomial

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     this has been my vibe review of go

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     Graham Sutherland / Polynomial (gsuberland@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 26-Jul-2025 21:24:32 JST Graham Sutherland / Polynomial

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     I don't even have a concrete reason for it that I could explain. I even sorta like a few things, such as the multiple returns being a first class feature, although the syntax for it feels gross to me for some inexplicable reason. the language just rubs me the wrong way.

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 26-Jul-2025 21:36:03 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     @gsuberland and by undercurrent of contempt i mean rob pike _did_ say it out loud