Also, do y'all call main() in the if block or do you just put the code you want to run in the if block?
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Sometimes I have the misfortune of working with python code written by someone else and I wonder how a language like this became anything more than a scripting language
I feel that Python is a bit of a 'Microsoft Word' of languages. Your own scripts are obviously completely fine, using a sensible and pragmatic selection of the language features in a robust fashion, but everyone else's are absurd collections of hacks that fall to pieces at the first modification.
To an extent, 'other people's C++ / Bash scripts' have the same problem. I'm usually okay with 'other people's Java', which to me is one of the big selling points of the language - the slight wordiness and lack of 'really stupid shit' makes collaboration easier.
Now, a Python script that's more than about two pages long? That makes me question its utility. The 'duck typing' everywhere makes any code that you can't 'keep in your head' very difficult to reason about.
How do you feel about other peoples Go code?
I used it for a while and I think it's been one of the best languages I've tried. C for example is too barebones for modern desktop apps. Apps written in Rust are great but most of the time, it's just not worth the effort. And stuff like Python, JS is... uhh.. where do I even begin
I think Go hits the sweet spot between these. Unlike C, it at least has some simple error/panic mechanism, GC so you don't have to worry about memory much and some modern features on top of that. And unlike Python it can actually create reasonably snappy programs.
In any programming language, there will always be multiple cases where you need to link C libraries. CGo, although people don't seem to be adoring it, is actually... okay? I mean of course it does still have some overhead but it's still one of the nicer ways to link C libraries with your code. And Go being similar to C makes writing bindings so much easier
Multithreading in Go is lovely. Or as I read somewhere "you merely adopted multithreading, I was born with it"
Packaging is handled pretty nicely, pulling a library from the net is fairly trivial. And the standard directory structure for Go, although I'm not used to it, makes organizing stuff much easier and is easy to adopt
As you would've guessed from the amount of times I mentioned C in this comment, I basically see Go as the "bigger C for different situations"