I’m going to describe my ideal language. What I want to know is: what language is this?
- Cultural proclivity to produce clear, obvious code (like Go)- 1st class server-side web/api development experience- Great REPL experience- Great IDE experience w/ refactoring and intellisense support- Great debugging experience- Immutable first, first-class immutable types- When needed, mutability is not like pulling teeth- Monadic error handling- Ability to say “what is this term?” like (source …) (doc …) in Clojure’s REPL- Data-first development (like Clojure) but with statically enforced guarantees about data shape- No private data*- Good perf analysis tools- No null- Gofmt- Good parallelism- Good concurrency- Simple to deploy/distribute (produces a native binary)- Great cross-platform support- General purpose (can be used to build web apps, native apps, terminal apps, etc)- Welcoming and enthusiastic community- Good package manager- High quality library (or standard library) support for most common scenarios (database connectivity, logging, monitoring, etc)- Low average rate of WTFs-per-line
- e.g. Not Java, C#, and other OO languages which encourage hiding data so that it is frustrating to figure out the shape of a data structure and how to get at it and/or change it.
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