Well, that and the slight fact that it bears Google's brand name.

I personally appreciate Go as a research experiment. Plenty of very interesting ideas, just as, for instance, Haskell. I don't particularly like it as a development language, but I can understand why some people do.

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9rx 5 days ago | parent [-]

> Plenty of very interesting ideas

Is there? When you get down to it, it is really just a faster Python. Which is exactly what it was said to be when it was released. Their goal was to create a "dynamically-typed" language that was more performant. It is likely that it wouldn't have had a static type system at all if they figured out how to achieve on the performance end without needing types.

You can tell who is clueless when you hear someone say its type system is lacking. I mean, technically it is, but it is supposed to be. Like saying Javascript or Ruby's type system is lacking.

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pjmlp 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

Faster Python with a very small set of its capabilities.

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Yoric 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Two examples of interesting ideas:

- using zero values as an optimization mechanism;

- (non-)pointers and passing self by copy.

I mean, I hate both mechanisms, but intellectually, I find them quite interesting.

Also, I'd not classify it as a faster Python. It's more of a cousin of Obj-C if the authors of Obj-C had fallen in love of Erlang instead of Smalltalk.

	▲	bombela 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Those ideas where already present in C/C++ decades prior. BSS program area. And passing struct by value vs pointer.