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Comment by elnygren | Hacker News Reader

Maybe you should try the dev experience of Elm or ReasonML before shooting down the author’s comments.

I get what you are saying and I also get what the author is saying it might be that you are missing something truly great in our engineering field.

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If the author had explained a real reason for abandoning Python in favor of Go, it would've made a lot more sense to write this article. "Not feeling it right" isn't how engineers choose their tools. He could've said that he wanted to try something other than Python, and I would have respected that.

On top of it, his reason to switch from Go to Rust is laughable at best.

I also can’t believe no one mentioned one of the things Go does best... Concurrency. When it comes to its concurrency and parallelism model. Go is just awesome.

Making concurrency/parallelism easy is not necessarily a good thing. You need guard rails in place to reduce the risk of bugs.

Node.js does that by only having concurrency, not parallelism. Rust does that by having very robust memory safety checking.

> If the author had explained a real reason for abandoning Python in favor of Go, it would've made a lot more sense to write this article. "Not feeling it right" isn't how engineers choose their tools. He could've said that he wanted to try something other than Python, and I would have respected that.

The sentence immediately following the phrase "it didn’t feel right anymore":

> Well, to be honest, it’s not really at “some totally random point” that it started not to feel right anymore, it was when I started to enjoy programming with a strongly typed language: Elm.

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