Comment by blibble

> Golang makes it easy to do the dumb, wrong, incorrect thing that looks like it works 99.7% of the time. How can that be wrong? It works in almost all cases!

my favorite example of this was the go authors refusing to add monotonic time into the standard library because they confidently misunderstood its necessity

(presumably because clocks at google don't ever step)

then after some huge outages (due to leap seconds) they finally added it

now the libraries are a complete a mess because the original clock/time abstractions weren't built with the concept of multiple clocks

and every go program written is littered with terrible bugs due to use of the wrong clock

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/12914 (https://github.com/golang/go/issues/12914#issuecomment-15075... might qualify for the worst comment ever)