← Back to context Comment by dude250711 4 hours ago Gophers are usually quite fast, perhaps an elderly turtle would be a better mascot? 4 comments dude250711 Reply rob74 3 hours ago In day-to-day usage, the (fast) compilation speed matters much more than the (slow) implementation of new features. christophilus 3 hours ago I totally agree, but I'd go further and argue that slow implementation of new features is itself a desirable trait. It's one of the reasons why why I like both Go and Clojure. aktau 3 hours ago Spot on. Heaven forbid it turns into a C++ (I'm not a Rust practitioner but from the outside it seems to accrete features pretty quickly as well).The ease of grokking Go (both reading and writing) are big advantages, and facilitated by the "small" feature set of Go. cookiengineer 1 hour ago > Gophers are usually quite fast, perhaps an elderly turtle would be a better mascot?The slow turtle wins the race against the overly eager rabbit... so I'm okay with that
rob74 3 hours ago In day-to-day usage, the (fast) compilation speed matters much more than the (slow) implementation of new features. christophilus 3 hours ago I totally agree, but I'd go further and argue that slow implementation of new features is itself a desirable trait. It's one of the reasons why why I like both Go and Clojure. aktau 3 hours ago Spot on. Heaven forbid it turns into a C++ (I'm not a Rust practitioner but from the outside it seems to accrete features pretty quickly as well).The ease of grokking Go (both reading and writing) are big advantages, and facilitated by the "small" feature set of Go.
christophilus 3 hours ago I totally agree, but I'd go further and argue that slow implementation of new features is itself a desirable trait. It's one of the reasons why why I like both Go and Clojure. aktau 3 hours ago Spot on. Heaven forbid it turns into a C++ (I'm not a Rust practitioner but from the outside it seems to accrete features pretty quickly as well).The ease of grokking Go (both reading and writing) are big advantages, and facilitated by the "small" feature set of Go.
aktau 3 hours ago Spot on. Heaven forbid it turns into a C++ (I'm not a Rust practitioner but from the outside it seems to accrete features pretty quickly as well).The ease of grokking Go (both reading and writing) are big advantages, and facilitated by the "small" feature set of Go.
cookiengineer 1 hour ago > Gophers are usually quite fast, perhaps an elderly turtle would be a better mascot?The slow turtle wins the race against the overly eager rabbit... so I'm okay with that
In day-to-day usage, the (fast) compilation speed matters much more than the (slow) implementation of new features.
I totally agree, but I'd go further and argue that slow implementation of new features is itself a desirable trait. It's one of the reasons why why I like both Go and Clojure.
Spot on. Heaven forbid it turns into a C++ (I'm not a Rust practitioner but from the outside it seems to accrete features pretty quickly as well).
The ease of grokking Go (both reading and writing) are big advantages, and facilitated by the "small" feature set of Go.
> Gophers are usually quite fast, perhaps an elderly turtle would be a better mascot?
The slow turtle wins the race against the overly eager rabbit... so I'm okay with that