Comment by booleandilemma
2 days ago
When I first learned about Go I thought the idea was to have a simple C-like language with a frozen feature set. A language that would look the same today and ten years from now. And I thought that boringness was a wonderful feature, actually.
If they're going to be adding features to the language, albeit at a slower pace than Java/C#, what's the point really? On a long enough timeline Go is going to be indistinguishable from these more feature-rich languages.
> When I first learned about Go I thought the idea was to have a simple C-like language with a frozen feature set.
C is a C-like language with a mostly frozen feature set. (If you want something less insane than C, there's also Pascal.)
C is not frozen.
C11 added generics, multi-threading, unicode support, static assertions. It broken compatibility with earlier versions by removing `gets` function.
C23 added `nullptr`, very fundamental change. typeof operator. auto keyword for type inference. Lots of breaking changes by introducing new keywords. Another breaking change is empty brackets `()` now mean as function taking no arguments.
So lots of new features and breaking changes with every new iteration. Thankfully, compilers support sane standards, so you can just use `-ansi` and live happy life, I guess...