Notes on Python to Go Translation of reposurgeon (2018)

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I've really, really tried to like GoLang. After 6 years of programming in it, I'm always looking for any opportunity to not use it. Anyone who's written a client library in Go will know what I'm talking about, it's incredibly inelegant. It's very hamstrung by the dedication "simple" which ironically leads to a lot of weird code (empty interfaces, etc) that's hard to explain for anyone not familiar with the language.

Any news on ESR? Since around 2020 it seems he went into complete radio silence.

I wonder if the recent improvements in Python performance would be enough to avoid the translation, if done today.

I'm still writing code and shipping releases. I have a book in progress.

Yes, I've been quiet. I never really liked being Mr. Famous Guy; I did it tactically to achieve the mission of mainstreaming open source and gave it up as soon as I could.

Nice to know everything is OK. What will the book subject be?

He's still around, I think. His homepage was last updated 2023.05.

I heard he shot himself in the pecker waking from a wet dream about Antifa activists forcing him to take the corona vaccine and consequentially mistaking his wiener for a tiny Mexican.

Or maybe I just dreamt it. Sounds about right either way, though.

I love the term "eyeball friction" when referring to Golang's error handling.

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