Go is the new Python

It's cool but not as cool as python is !!

Wow, way to trigger both language users at the same time

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Good luck making sysadmins and devops use go

@Chlodovechus

Still quite happy with perl, as a sysadmin.

@irene

Old but still excellent, and no need to futz with cumbersome classes, objects, or web-intended frameworks.

@Chlodovechus it's funny though since many major devops related projects are developed in go. Go for life.

@bahua Perl is a steaming pile of trash syntax.

@Seanld

Not my experience, but also, there's no need to get pissy.

@bahua when he's right he's right :)

How, in your opinion, is the syntax of perl superlatively inefficient? Especially considering the fact that JavaScript, a huge favorite around here, appears to not just suffer from inconsistency, but rejoices in it.

@bahua no one said inefficient. Trash is what was mentioned. My answer is pretty much perl in the wild has been god awful code which is held together by bandages and luck. Also, in perl, people have too many ways to do things, they often try to be more clever than they should so the code winds up this dense unmaintainable trash heap. Maybe some perl isn't this way but all of it that I've encountered has been. Although I suppose if it's faster to scrap the code and start fresh than to fix it, that's a pretty inefficient use of resources. It is very much a preference thing though and probably varies depending on the developer.

Oh and javascript, you're totally right. It can be and normally is quite awful to maintain. The rate at which people make frameworks and adopt them is down right manic.

@codePatrol

You're describing programmers, not perl.

@bahua Yeah, absolutely but perl tends to enable it more so than other languages / ecosystems. It happens far less frequently in a language with good patterns that has some syntactical candy to make it easier to use standard patterns.

@codePatrol

My code is readable, organized, and uniformly indented. It's that way because I like it that way. Some other languages require it that way, and I find this rigidity intolerable. Perl lets me arrange it how I want. Freedom is what I want, not the language's author's vision of utopia.

@bahua Totally get that and respect it. I wish I had to maintain that codebase instead of the disaster I walked into lol. I'm fine with rigidity as long as I share the same vision of Utopia.

@codePatrol

Sharing the vision is the trick, after all.

@bahua it was a big generalization. I wasn't trying to anger you...

I've scripted with Perl here and there (by no means am I a master) for different task automations on my own devices, but that's it. It's pretty nice for smaller programs like that, but for large frameworks and other code that requires a lot of maintainability, well... I just hope the next guy down the line who has to refactor the code doesn't get a heart attack.

Is there someone who doesn't like Go's syntax? Specifically the assignment operator := (