I was taking part here in a brief debate in the comments for a Go language related post, and the programmer was up in arms that the Go compiler didn't transparently cast things for him
I was that programmer, and I've now changed my mind.
The whole 'less design is better' is always more palatable when it doesn't touch the things one is used to taking for granted (in my case, having a nice numeric tower).
But the union of all the common such features gives you something like Scala, which is to me obviously over-designed. Go is more like the intersection.
I was that programmer, and I've now changed my mind.
The whole 'less design is better' is always more palatable when it doesn't touch the things one is used to taking for granted (in my case, having a nice numeric tower).
But the union of all the common such features gives you something like Scala, which is to me obviously over-designed. Go is more like the intersection.