• pulaskiwasright@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    My favorite is “Java is slow” said by someone advocating for a language that’s at least 10 times slower.

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          6 months ago

          I wouldn’t say so. They are inexperienced. They don’t know where the bottleneck of most of the modern software is (it’s io in 80-90% of cases) and how to optimize software without rewriting it to C++

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      6 months ago

      My favourite is “all the boilerplate” then they come up with go’s error checking where you repeat the same three lines after every function call so that 60% of your code is the same lines orlf error checking over and over

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        6 months ago

        And god help you if you forget those 3 lines somewhere and you silently have database failures or something else.

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          6 months ago

          Yeah, that’s the other thing - it does become easier to accidentally fail to deal with errors and the go adherents say they do all of that verbose BS to make error handling more robust. I actually like go, but there’s so much BS with ignoring the pain points in the language.

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        6 months ago

        When you handle all your errs the same way, I’d say you’re doing something wrong. You can build some pretty strong err trace wrapping errs. I also think it’s more readable than the average try catch block.

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          6 months ago

          You still need to add error handling to every call to every function that might raise an error