Thanks Jan Indeed the majority can be wrong but in this case the OLD smart minority too wanted a way to improve things. This approach was in fact dictated by their requirements
On Tuesday, August 1, 2023 at 2:10:57 AM UTC-6 Jan Mercl wrote: > On Tue, Aug 1, 2023 at 1:47 AM DrGo <salah....@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/bdee0b89-2098-4c32-b6a5-8cb3aa54abccn%40googlegroups.com.
