> It's easy to get started with, and made converts from scripting languages feel empowered, as if they were "real programmers" writing C, what with "pointers" and static types.
What is wrong with this? Exposing people to pointers and static types might give them confidence when writing or reading in "real programmers" code in C
I find the level of sneery nose turning in this thread quite abhorrent to be honest.
There seems to be an idea that some ways of telling your computer what to do are too foppish and that if you are serious about it you use a language from 40 years ago. Of course that's probably what the assembly programmers said about C and there aren't many of those left anymore.
> What is wrong with this? Exposing people to pointers and static types might give them confidence when writing or reading in "real programmers" code in C
I don't see it as sneery nose-turning. Rather I see it as an acknowledgement that the real difficulty of C isn't pointers but rather is manual memory management, which Golang doesn't prepare you for.
What is wrong with this? Exposing people to pointers and static types might give them confidence when writing or reading in "real programmers" code in C
I find the level of sneery nose turning in this thread quite abhorrent to be honest.