The language Go hails from an era when programmers had smaller egos and fewer commercial ambitions. My generation of strivers has a lot to learn.
Much of that, I admit, applies to me. The difference is I’m a tad short on talents to hyphenate, and my toy projects—with names like “Nabokov” —are better off staying on my laptop. I entered this world pretty much the moment software engineering overtook banking as the most reviled profession. There’s a lot of hatred, and self-hatred, to contend with. Perhaps this is why I see the ethos behind the programming language Go as both a rebuke and a potential corrective to my generation of strivers.
I once wrote a small search engine in Python for sifting through my notes and documents, but it was unusably sluggish. Rewritten in Go, my pitiful serpent grew wings and took off, running 30 times faster. As some astute readers might have guessed, this program was my “Nabokov.” To wit: Many find Go code ugly. There’s a procrustean uniformity to it, and it lacks the tidy shorthands of, say, Ruby or Python, so even common patterns can become messy and cluttered.
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