louis, 1 year ago

@galdor Uh oh ...😀

galdor, 1 year ago

@louis As I always said, Go is a terrible language in itself. Does not mean it cannot be used productively.

You're allowed (and often required) to work with things you don't like.

louis, 1 year ago

@galdor Which programming language could I sell you that does not use a "+" for string concatenation and is so highly productive as Go?

galdor, 1 year ago

@louis This is the problem.

Common Lisp and Erlang are both way better designed as languages, but their ecosystems are wastelands.

gothnbass, 1 year ago

@galdor @louis Wastelands?
That might have been true of CL a few years ago, and it's not on the scale of Python or Java, but isn't that a bit of an overstatement?

louis, 1 year ago

@gothnbass @galdor I have to agree with @galdor. I spent months with Common Lisp and while I really appreciate many of the design decisions and really like the language, the ecosystem is really lightyears behind Go. I could write programs in Common Lisp which resulted in 100 LOC vs. Go 500 LOC but it took me 8 times longer and automated Git/Docker-based deployment is a huge PITA.

Ultimately I abandoned Common Lisp because it totally wrecked my productivity.

But I still have some ❤️ for Common Lisp for sure!

gothnbass, 1 year ago

@louis @galdor Really not helping my impulse to try rewriting in Rust, here.