On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 4:56 AM, Steven Hartland <ste...@multiplay.co.uk> wrote:
> On 22/02/2018 09:46, andrewchambe...@gmail.com wrote: > > Just a list of things I like about Go, thanks everyone for the hard work: > > snip... > > Minor things that could be improved in order of importance: > > - Ways to express immutability ... as a concurrent language it can still > be easy to make mistakes and share a buffer or slice by accident. > - More advanced static analysis tools that can prove properties of your > code (perhaps linked with the above). > > Have you seen: https://github.com/alecthomas/gometalinter > > - Generics. > - Some sort of slightly more sophisticated pattern matching . > > Not sure what you mean here but have you seen: > https://golang.org/pkg/regexp/ > I'm pretty sure Andrew was referring to pattern matching like in Scala and Rust. It's a very slick feature. Related: Rust's enum types are slick -- they are like a combination of enums (such as in Java, and Scala) and Scala's sealed classes. https://docs.scala-lang.org/tour/pattern-matching.html https://doc.rust-lang.org/1.6.0/book/match.html > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
