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Date: Tue,  3 Dec 2013 06:49:41 +0200
From: lucio@proxima.alt.za
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Go and 21-bit runes (and a bit of Go status)
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> Why do you hold this opinion?  While your defensiveness is hilarious, it's a
> simple matter of curiosity.  I'm trying to understand the fervor
> behind another
> language-cum-fashion-accessory.  Specifically:  how will Go enable good things
> that, say, python has not?  Which good things?  Are all of them web based?
>
Stop being sarcastic and you may stop seeing defensiveness and hilariousness, too.

As for the Go-vs-Python issue, (a) Python was
latest-"language-cum-fashion-accessory" itself not too long ago and
(b) enough has been written about it elsewhere by more competent
people than myself; I'm sure you can refer to that literature rather
than expect me to botch a description here.

> I'm not asking this idly.  I have resources available for projects like this,
> but I'm tired of wasting them on projects that go nowhere once the developers'
> attention span shifts to whatever hip new thing is promoted by $COMPANY.

I guess you would not like me to read "for COMPANY=Google shift span"
in the above, but I did and others probably too.  The challenge is out
there, $COMPANY does not want to allocate funding to the Plan 9 port
of Go and Plan 9 and Dragonfly BSD have been found wanting with regard
to the support needed by the developers to get their work done.  That
has caused the entry bar to be raised and I believe that is fair, if
inconvenient.

If you can contribute resources to the project, we may all be
grateful, but if they come with strings attached such as the need to
tolerate your sarcasm, I suspect some of us may well prefer to refuse
them.

++L