On Tue, Aug 1, 2023 at 1:47 AM DrGo <salah.mah...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The verbosity of error handling is the number one concern for Go developers > in the most recent survey. That says something about those developers, about their preferences, opinions, taste etc and that it differs from what the Original Language Designers (OLD™) preferred. It has close to zero bits of information which preferences are the better ones. It's a subjective category anyway. > So there is a need for doing something about it.. And here's IMO the mistake. You may feel the need, Joe and Mary may not. It's ok to have preferences. It's ok for preferences to be different. It does not mean there's a need to change anything. Of course, you can decide that following the preferences of a majority of developers is a rational move. I claim it a fallacy. A big one. Let me not joke about billion flies, but the fact is - language designers are few and far between while developers come in heaps. And let's be honest. Most developers write horrible code, me included. Maybe you're the rare exception, congrats then. But the majority of us are just the ordinary, average coders for hire. There are deadlines to meet, bills to pay, project mis-managers getting into the way etc. We have all experienced that, didn't we? I, for one learned to pay much more attention to what language designers do and say. Sometimes I agree, sometime I don't. But I believe one can, in essence, ignore what the majority of developers thinks about it. Actually, I think the majority of developers is wrong more often than the, most of the time silent, minority. -j -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CAA40n-UNPFRR55YYJgWs34jh38p1zf61PpZaWFGiH2_khv1kbg%40mail.gmail.com.
