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Notes on Python to Go Translation of reposurgeon (2018)

by 0xpgm on 12/5/23, 12:23 PM with 7 comments

• by GaryNumanVevo on 12/5/23, 1:28 PM

  I've really, really tried to like GoLang. After 6 years of programming in it, I'm always looking for any opportunity to not use it. Anyone who's written a client library in Go will know what I'm talking about, it's incredibly inelegant. It's very hamstrung by the dedication "simple" which ironically leads to a lot of weird code (empty interfaces, etc) that's hard to explain for anyone not familiar with the language.

• by Qem on 12/5/23, 12:53 PM

  Any news on ESR? Since around 2020 it seems he went into complete radio silence.

  I wonder if the recent improvements in Python performance would be enough to avoid the translation, if done today.

• by lucidguppy on 12/5/23, 1:19 PM

  I love the term "eyeball friction" when referring to Golang's error handling.