Go (Programming Language)

   Go (also golang) is a compiled [1]programming language advertised as the
   the "[2]modern" successor to [3]C, it is co-authored by one of C's
   authors, [4]Ken Thompson, and has been worked on by [5]Rob Pike, another
   famous Unix hacker (who however allegedly went insane and has been really
   doing some crazy shit for years). Of all the new language go is one of the
   least [6]harmful, however it's still quite [7]shit. Some reasons for this
   are:

     * It is developed by [8]Google and presented as "[9]open-source" (not
       [10]free software).
     * It downloads additional [11]dependencies during compilation, a huge
       defect due to which it's been rejected e.g. from [12]HyperbolaBSD
       (https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:philosophy:incompatible_packages).
     * It has (classless) [13]OOP features.
     * It has [14]bloat such as [15]garbage collection, built-in [16]complex
       number type, [17]concurrency and something akin a [18]package manager
       (go get/install).
     * It forces a programming style in which an opening function bracket ({)
       can't be on its own line. [19]LMAO
     * Huge standard library with shit like crypto, image and html.
     * It is also slow (at least the tested implementations of course), on
       benchmarks it performs about a class lower than C/C++.
     * ...

   Anyway, it at least tries to stay somewhat simple in some areas and as
   such is probably better than other modern languages like [20]Rust. It
   purposefully omits features such as [21]generics or static type
   conversions, which is good.

   How big is it really? The official implementation by Google has whopping 2
   million lines of code of self hosted implementation -- that's ginormous
   but keep in mind Google would likely implement minesweeper in two million
   lines of code too, so it may say little. Size of specification may be more
   informative -- that one has about 130 pages (after converting the official
   HTML specs to pdf), that's a bit smaller than that of C (the pure language
   part has about 160 pages), so that's not bad.

   As of february 2024 there is no [22]code of conduct in the official repo,
   that's good too.

Links:
1. programming_language.md
2. modern.md
3. c.md
4. ken_thompson.md
5. rob_pike.md
6. harmful.md
7. shit.md
8. google.md
9. open_source.md
10. free_software.md
11. dependency.md
12. hyperbolabsd.md
13. oop.md
14. bloat.md
15. garbage_collection.md
16. complex_number.md
17. concurrency.md
18. package_manager.md
19. lmao.md
20. rust.md
21. generics.md
22. coc.md