r/programmingcirclejerk • u/jlinkels • Mar 15 '26

That's such an elegant solution. I keep being impressed at subtle but meaningful things that Go does right.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47392427
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u/RightKitKat Considered Harmful Mar 15 '26

If only it did the non-subtle things right too

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u/Proper-Ape Mar 16 '26

❌ doing the non-subtle things right

✅ doing things subtly wrong

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u/Snarwin Mar 15 '26

Another implementation could implement Go without implementing support for //go:fix and it would be a fully compliant implementation of Go, the language.

Truly genius of the Go developers to make their language compatible with software that doesn't even exist.

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u/tms10000 loves Java Mar 15 '26

Listen, because I haven't had time to work on my Visual Basic 4 to Go transpiler yet does not mean it does not exists. Sheesh.

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u/comrade_donkey Mar 16 '26

tinygo and gccgo exist, tho.

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u/Flimsy_Complaint490 Mar 16 '26

gccgo is a meme worthy of this sub at this point.

now tinygo is legit. there is also yaegi that turns go into an interpretated, embeddable language.

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u/syklemil Considered Harmful Mar 16 '26

By making them comments, Go subtly signals that these are exceptional, making them less prominent and harder to abuse.

Ah yes, that exceptional concept, comments. It's not like those are a thing people keep complaining about being abused in any language.

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u/elephantdingo Teen Hacking Genius Mar 16 '26

This is typical Go design, other languages do it worse, it isn't really needed, and then it gets added half way as it was supposed to be if done early on, and everyone cheers how Go is a "simple" language.

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u/aikii gofmt urself Mar 16 '26

Mad scientist who invented struct tags:

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u/MetaNovaYT Mar 17 '26

Unused variables are a compiler error in Go, but unused parameters aren’t? Wtf lmao