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A curated list of articles complaining that go (golang) isn't good enough

22 mentions on Hacker News by 20 people: 13 stories, 9 comments · first 2015-12-10 · latest 2021-06-25

Mentions per year 22 mentions · busiest year 2017 (6)
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  1. Compare https://github.com/ksimka/go-is-not-good
    comment by eru · 2021-06-25 · in Why Go Is Not Good
  2. Well, there's a lot more than that: https://github.com/ksimka/go-is-not-good
    comment by nickm12 · 2020-11-07 · in What's so great about Go?
  3. …would have perhaps been a worthwhile language had they come up with Go instead of C in the 1970s. https://github.com/ksimka/go-is-not-good is a good summary. I would suggest having a look at D as an example of what an evolution of C could…
    comment by eru · 2020-06-18 · in The Next Step for Generics
  4. …polymorphism are the most annoying. There's a github repo dedicated to what's bugging people: https://github.com/ksimka/go-is-not-good
  5. Better if parent had linked to the source: https://github.com/ksimka/go-is-not-good
    comment by hliyan · 2019-10-20 · in Golang Sucks
  6. There's an indexed list of posts about Go's flaws here: https://github.com/ksimka/go-is-not-good In my opinion, don't use Go at all if you can avoid it - it may be acceptable for a tiny CLI project but anything of significant complexity…
  7. Another article to add to https://github.com/ksimka/go-is-not-good
    comment by nickm12 · 2018-02-19 · in Why I Don't Like Golang (2016)
  8. …like 50% of the day-to-day code in the language is error-checking due to the lack of exceptions [2] https://github.com/ksimka/go-is-not-good [3] http://byrd.im/go-is-poor/ [4] http://nomad.so/2015/03/why-gos-design-is-a-disservice-to-in...…
    comment by pmarreck · 2017-07-25 · in Elixir 1.5 released
  9. …"stuck in the 70s". [1] It's "modern" only because of its age, not because of its features. [1] https://github.com/ksimka/go-is-not-good