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In Spanish works very well

I agree. The limited expressiveness in Go also worked as an advantage because of its simplicity. Additionally, as the article mentions, the lack of lambdas made the syntax less convenient. For me, it struck a good balance before generics and other features were added.

The feature I miss the most is marking numbers as spam

So happy that they added the ability to extend response deadlines with http.ResponseController.

Argument - Monty Python https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohDB5gbtaEQ

In Spain the limit is 1K€

What an amazing track record from Joel Spolsky: Launched Fog Creek, then StackOverflow, Trello and now Glitch (which I think is the successor of Fog Creek)

Invoicing gets even better in countries like Portugal, where you have to send to the tax authorities every invoice that you generate.

Cuba?

Great read. They wrote a DOS in 35 days using punch cards. Amazing.

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I saw the video and it is crazy that they think it is even close to production.

In my Kia (2020 model) it works most of the time but it also tried to crash me a couple of times. Of course it is disabled now.

Simple optimizations, Advanced always broke my code.

I switched from google closure to esbuild and it is amazing how fast and well it works. It even generates smaller code in my use case (200k lines app). Also the creator is really nice. He implemented two features I requested right away, which surprised me a lot. What a great project!

That is a great point

Proof-of-work systems are pure, unadulterated energy waste

The more you pollute, the richer you get. I can't understand why nobody talks about this.

This was in older versions. From 5.7 ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY is enabled by default.

Now that you have pointed where it is, it really looks easy to understand how it works. Thank you!

That was a fun read. Very interesting.

I have noticed that the AST nodes don't have a parent reference. I wonder how it knows for example when encountering a "continue LABEL" that the code is nested maybe deeply in a loop with that label. The only way I would think of is traversing the tree up but I think there is no way of doing this. How do they do it?

This reminds me a lot about ASP.net Webforms. Maybe this is better conceived but trying to program the web like a desktop app created more problems than what it tried to solve.

It's an sports club management system (online reservations, classes, memberships, POS, Inventory...). Lots of modules that I will like to explore the possibility of selling it to another market.

I prefer not to share it but if you are interested send me an email to pedrogarcia2659@gmail.com I can send you a link.

I have a SAAS product which is already selling but I am looking for a sales cofounder to explore new niches.

I have been using Go in production since 2012 and I find it a fantastic tool. Except for point 8 ("The sort.Interface approach is clumsy") the rest are features for me.

I am so grateful for the Go creators for having made it as it is. What worries me is the recent changes: modules (never had a problem with GOPATH) and Go 2 proposals. I hope they are able to keep their vision as it started.

Do you know if the Go compiler does this too?

Edit: Nevermind, it doesn't: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/5496

In Go single letter variables are used when they are short lived (3 or 4 lines) and in this cases I find it way more readable than long names.

From Go proverbs:

  "A little copying is better than a little dependency."

I miss google talk but it was just chat. I use hangouts this days for chat, voice and screen sharing and it works well enough.

I'm a little bit tempted to make a simple compile-to-go language.

That's what I did for my current project. I love Go but for web apps is not the best in my opinion. I had some spare time and ended up building a VM that compiles typescript to bytecode. The performance loss is minimal, I still use the Go std library but it is a pleasure to use VS Code, generics (the VM ignores types but the TS compiler gives you static type safety, autocompletion, refactoring, etc...) Also exceptions is great for web apps where usually there is nothing else you can do but save all the info that you can and show an error to the user.