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who has a better philosophy when it comes to software engineering?

@genmaicha One is a productivity grifter and the other has spent 20 years happily whoring himself out to Goolag, plus he has awful taste in programing languages

@scathach golang's not so bad and rob pike uses array programming languages from time to time

@genmaicha I'd consider using it again if it had enums

@scathach @genmaicha i have never really missed enums, consts of a bespoke type usually suffice. go is garbage collected c more than anything else.

what makes go good is having a rather sane ecosystem. the compiler is sane, cross-compiling (pure go) works out of the box, the module system with no central repository but checksums is how it should be everywhere.

it's not 100%, but a very good 80% language, especially for the things it was designed for.

gcc-go needs more love though.

@bonifartius @genmaicha As far as GC'd C I like D a lot more than Go

Real shame it never caught on

@scathach @genmaicha i think i ignored D because of being quasi-closed-source for such a long time.

@bonifartius @genmaicha Ohhh yeah I would've avoided them too in that case

@bonifartius @genmaicha Doesn't seem particularly proprietary now

@scathach @bonifartius IMO D is still too similar to C++