Tell HN: Annoyed with Go Lang

2 points·seto28··7 comments

As a Go player, I'm always interested in articles concerning Go, the game, but as I scan through the titles I see so many posts concerning Go the language that it's becoming annoying.

Imagine there's a language called Chess, wouldn't you find that annoying? Or is it just me?

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As a snake keeper, I'm always interested in articles concerning pythons, the reptiles, but as I scan through the titles I see so many posts concerning python the language that it's becoming annoying.

Imagine there's a language called ruby and you were a gem collector, wouldn't you find that annoying? Or is it just me?

-- cheap shot, sorry --

Yes its annoying that most languages use names that are not invented for the purpose. But it only annoys a very small proportion of people. What's the alternative?

Better searching: "python snake" and "ruby gemstone"

Why don't you use negation in your searches: "go -golang"

seto28 isn't talking about searching, but about reading the front page.

i think a programming language called "Chess" would be awesome, it could be to C what CoffeeScript is to Javascript.

It's already been done twice (C++ and Objective C). The law of diminishing returns must kick in at some point.

Harder to do with C. Either you'll just add a small syntactical layer on top of C, mostly for cosmetic purposes (similar to python indentation tools for C or #define END } ), or you'll basically have a language that compiles to C (like p2c, f2c, Vala, SmartEiffel etc.).

Haven't seen a decent "transformation" of C that actually gets you more than it is worth, especially when it comes to interfacing to existing C libraries.

Edit: If you ever decide to make a Chess language, please make an IDE called Bangkok.

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