That seems to be a common story though. Man tries Haskell, realizes he’s not smart enough and gives up to pursue simple things like distributed systems
Modern English
Rick Hudson, Go GC: Solving the Latency Problem, GopherCon 2015, Denver, Colorado
(slides)
Zooming in, there is still a slight positive correlation between heap size and GC pauses. But they know what the issue is and it will be fixed in Go 1.6.
Deadpan
This is the same language that has
notwithstandingas an (ignored) keyword
(comments)
Over and over and over
Go doesn’t have generics, but it has provoked the most thorough, comprehensive, and tedious discussions of them that I have seen anywhere.
Notes on Programming in C (1989)
taste is relevant to clarity
Organization
If you’re writing Go projects the same way you write Ruby, Java, or Node.js projects then you’re probably going to be fighting with the language.