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Better if parent had linked to the source: https://github.com/ksimka/go-is-not-good

Yeah the motivations should be read first.

This seems very counter-productive.

A quick find-in-page, also reveals a skew towards older articles. Some of these might not be relevant anymore.

2012 - 19

2013 - 20

2014 - 60

2015 - 84

2016 - 26

2017 - 18

2018 - 6

It does raise the question if there’s less complaining now because older issues have been resolved.

A quick scrolling through the list shows various issues that have indeed been resolved:

- GOPATH is a mess (not needed anymore)

- bad dependency management (Go now has a somewhat conventional package manager built in)

- immature GC (now one of the best of breed)

- slow JSON parsing (has significantly improved since 2015)

Also, a large part of the supposed evidence for "not good" is a matter of taste.

This site clearly explains why containers hve flopped so badly in the market.

Wow....why would anyone go through so much trouble just to create such a site?

Not sure who flagged this.

It's not a great site, but flagging it seems more like a suppression tactic from someone a bit over-enthusiastic, rather than a solid call. :/

I did. Yes, I'm obviously over-enthusiastic, not having written a single Golang program in my life. eyeroll

If you find a landing page consisting of one quotation and six unfounded, insult-laden statements a worthwhile submission, then I won't try to reason with you.

Only unfounded if you don’t read what’s inside

I evaluate what's been submitted, not something else linked from there. OP could have submitted the GitHub writeup and I wouldn't have flagged it.

So you flagged it because you don't like it. eg to stop other people seeing it, rather than just ignoring it and moving on?

I flagged it because random insults have no place here.

It sounds like you've not really looked at the site.

It's a collection of articles about Go, with an emphasis on the bad points.

eg the "insults" are links to full articles

Sure, the format is lousy, but the info is somewhat relevant.

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