Comment by avgcorrection
1 year ago
> However, they have also been subject to profoundly unreasonable – even unhinged – criticism, and this has created a rather unhealthy dynamic where both reasonable and unreasonable criticism are all treated the same by the developers. You kind of need to insulate yourself to some degree.
If you need to insulate yourself to the degree that you ban someone for answering the question “V or Go?” with “Go, obviously”[1] then what’s the point of even maintaining a community? All you’ll end up with is a bunch of yes-women.
[1] Is V production-ready?—no. Is Go? Yes, for a long time.
> However, they have also been subject to profoundly unreasonable – even unhinged – criticism, and this has created a rather unhealthy dynamic where both reasonable and unreasonable criticism are all treated the same by the developers.
What he is saying rings true. There is a level to all of this "that's beyond the pale".
> Is V production-ready?—no. Is Go? Yes, for a long time.
Go is a 10 years older (from 2009) corporate creation. It's not an apples to apples comparison, which can easily set the stage for tension in an interaction. It does not make sense to compare how production-ready a much older language is to a younger volunteer open source language in beta (and whose site and version number indicate that's so).