Notes on Python to Go Translation of reposurgeon (2018)

https://gitlab.com/esr/reposurgeon/-/blob/1bfa90ff8c8c7ae7e409e2de9e5f24da57e364f2/GoNotes.adoc

by 0xpgm • 3 years ago

29 7 3 years ago

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Qem2• 3 years ago

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.

hiAndrewQuinn• 3 years ago

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

a2800276• 3 years ago

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.

esr• 3 years ago

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.

Qem2• 3 years ago

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

lucidguppy• 3 years ago

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

GaryNumanVevo• 3 years ago

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.

Notes on Python to Go Translation of reposurgeon (2018)

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