Jack Jackson / is on Nostr

Staff SRE at LegalZoom. He/him.

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2024-06-01 19:21:16

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eh, the capitalization/publicity feels very weird to me, but I can recognize it as a neat solution if I was starting from no style preconceptions.
It's the mandatory error-handling (without error-chaining), lack of very basic capabilities (map/filter/append for slices, optional parameters, enums, get_with_default) for me. What little I've seen of the packaging ecosystem also seems distasteful (referencing GitHub directly!?), but I'll admit to having less familiarity there.

2024-06-01 14:53:09

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Anyway, now I'm off to go write my next project in GoLang so that I can tell the person who implied I didn't like it because I was afraid of it (rather than because of my clearly-articulated dislike of its design choices) to get in the sea :P

2024-06-01 14:47:55

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Realizing now that, actually, all 4 of those things are evangelized by the same coworker - though I didn't really have him in mind when I wrote this, most of those are "whole internet phenomena". So, Dude, if you see this - this wasn't a sub-post (though, genuinely, I _do_ want to understand what it is about most of these things that makes you like them more than their faults!)

2024-06-01 14:45:19

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Note that I intentionally said "deeply flawed" and not the more evocative "trash" because I can certainly recognize that all of those things _have_ value, and can be useful in some - many! - cases. It's just that their obvious flaws, _to me_, outweigh the value, and I'm confused about the differing evaluation that other people are using.

2024-06-01 14:43:55

More and more, recently, I see otherwise-apparently-smart-and-discerning people enthusiastically supporting things that are, to me, self-evidently deeply flawed. GoLang, DataDog, Code-writing LLMs, Event Sourcing. I really do worry that I have become a calcified Grumpy Old Man Coder who is just suspicious of anything new - but, then, when I try to actually probe them on the benefits that outweigh the _clear_ drawbacks, they just deflect. Confusing.

2024-04-27 17:30:52

The English language really needs a phrase for "I hear and empathize with your struggles" without the implication of "I take responsibility and apologize for being the cause of them". "I'm sorry" is too powerful and significant a phrase to be bastardized to mean "that sucks".