> I would argue that Go has been successful largely because everything that’s happening is “out in the open”, where the average developer can see it. It’s a very different philosophy, one that I think the quote-creator aligns with better than your typical Haskell devotee.
This is why I like Go. It makes it difficult to write code that doesn't take basically the same approach any other, similar code would. When you start trying to get abstract or do anything cute, it hurts just enough that you won't do it unless there's an actual need, not just some aesthetic preference.
Consequently, I can hop in to just about any of my dependencies and read them immediately. No, "huh, I haven't seen that language feature before" or "WTF is that symbol even?" or "... but where does it actually do anything?" or "oh great they've imported a library that basically turns it into an entirely different language".
The community's also been really good at avoiding adding abstractions through libraries, so you don't end up with the mess that Javascript had for years with multiple competing Promise libraries in wide use or a dozen competing module systems or any of that crap. There's some experimentation but it rarely gets out of hand.
This is why I like Go. It makes it difficult to write code that doesn't take basically the same approach any other, similar code would. When you start trying to get abstract or do anything cute, it hurts just enough that you won't do it unless there's an actual need, not just some aesthetic preference.
Consequently, I can hop in to just about any of my dependencies and read them immediately. No, "huh, I haven't seen that language feature before" or "WTF is that symbol even?" or "... but where does it actually do anything?" or "oh great they've imported a library that basically turns it into an entirely different language".
The community's also been really good at avoiding adding abstractions through libraries, so you don't end up with the mess that Javascript had for years with multiple competing Promise libraries in wide use or a dozen competing module systems or any of that crap. There's some experimentation but it rarely gets out of hand.