[demizer]

All these plan9 scientists love their own brand. I started using Go in 2012, but after they killed deps.dev I gave it up. Some years later when I wanted to get work done at work I tried to introduce it on my team and another engineer spent a good amount of time looking into the language and listed all the reasons why it sucked, and he was right. The main takeaway was, yeah it's simple, but it does silly things that makes it a pain to use (error handling and unused imports) to name a few. I personally like the error handling but hated the type system.

[cwbriscoe]

Just run goimports on save then there would be no issue with unused imports. I would take go's error handling over try/catch any day of the week.

[cangeroo]

You then have to reimport. Every time when you comment out code.

I guess the compiler authors don't comment out code?

And it's intentionally not optional on the compiler.

So you have to modify the source and compile your own compiler to disable it. It's ridiculously sadistic to their users.