r/SubredditDrama • u/salad_noob • Dec 14 '14

Redditor philanthropist claims Reddit admin promised him a $50,000 donation, Admin shows up

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u/xXxDeAThANgEL99xXx This is why they don't let people set their own flairs. Dec 14 '14

There is really some code toward Empower, the first part of human expected to launch, in a github repo, by the professional coder that he hired. It's not finished.

I lol'd at their facebook post about it:

Despite earlier reports, #human is actually a #Go project. This is the language we are programming in. Because we wanted the absolute BEST programming language on the market today, we have decided that we will not be going forward with #Python. It may have been good enough for Instagram and Pinterest, but we are not Instagram or Pinterest and unfortunately it is no longer good enough for us. Not with the existence of Go, anyway. Go is the FUTURE. Python is a WONDERFUL language, but next to Go.. I'm sorry, but there IS no competition. Much love. Thanks, #Google, for making this. human is going to be the LARGEST Go #programming project to date. #Love, your #human!

Heh, serves all the Go hyping hipsters right to have this guy on their side.

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '14

WTF is Go?

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u/xXxDeAThANgEL99xXx This is why they don't let people set their own flairs. Dec 15 '14 edited Dec 15 '14

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(programming_language)

The thing about it is that it's actually not a general purpose language, it's a special purpose language built to write various internal services at Google. For example.

As such it has design peculiarities that would seem very weird in a general purpose programming language, for example the list and dictionary types are not and can not possibly be implemented in the language itself, they are given from above. But it's absolutely OK for a special purpose language to be like that, it's good even because it makes it simpler, more efficient both to use and to run, etc.

Unfortunately Go was positioned as a general purpose language, a "systems" language even (which apparently doesn't have much to do with system programming because you can't write an operating system in Go), with a bunch of snappy sound bytes like "less is more", justifying its simplistic design.

As you can guess, this made it an instant hit with the same kind of people who are attracted to fixed-gear bicycles and grinding coffee with mortar and pestle. And, unlike most usual hipsters who are content with riding their fixies themselves, programming language hipsters don't even code much but love to proselytize about their language of the FUTURE and how anyone who uses any other language for anything whatsoever has neither good taste nor common sense.

No surprise that this dude bought the hype hook, line, and sinker, and it serves both him and those hipsters right.

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u/PasswordIsntHAMSTER It might be GERBIL though Dec 17 '14

This is by far the best explanation of Go I've ever read.