Re: [TUHS] more about Brian...

I used to be a big proponent of Go back in 2010. The language definitely felt fresh and minimal back then when Java and C++ were dominant on the market. And it definitely felt like the authors of Go wanted to replace them . It made sense in the Google environment, but very soon people realized that you can't write everything in Go. Garbage collector is cool but actually it prevents you from writing kernel or performance critical code, e.g. games. But Go became popular anyway. A lot of substandard PHP and New Age programmers started using it and it showed. In the beginning the humble authors of Go preferred minimal variable names and less than 80 char lines. In time all this turned into Java-like long, expressive variable names and extremely long lines. I really hate lines longer than 80 chars...in any language. They are really hard to focus as you need to constantly move your eyes from left to right. The same phenomenon happens with very wide browser windows.

And due to popular demand they started to add on to the language features: modules, generics, etc.. The language still feels a lot less bloated than C++, but IMHO plain old C just feels more natural and minimal.

And because I still program on a lot of old retro systems today I returned back to C. You can use C on pretty much everything -- from 8-bit machines to amd64. You can't say the same about Go.