One year of Go

[Sean Kelly]

Jeff Nowakowski Wrote:

> On 11/12/2010 11:29 AM, Sean Kelly wrote:
> > To me, what they're saying is that their syntax is broken and so it
> > forces a convention upon the users to deal with the issue.  I know
> > this is just a bike shed issue, but seeing something like this in the
> > beginning of the tutorial makes it difficult for me to take them
> > seriously.
> 
> Yes, semicolons are a bike shed issue, and dismissing the whole language 
> because of that is petty. Walter has made a point in the past about 
> people who will look for one reason to dismiss something.

I haven't dismissed Go because it clearly has done a lot of things right.  But stumbling across something like this in my first 5 minutes with the language doesn't instill a lot of confidence.