Oh wow, this is going to be a short one. I decided to pick up Golang on a whim and I am pleasantly surprised. I have picked up Golang a few times before, but it never clicked until this time, and oh boy did it click this time. I love the strongly-typed nature of the language, and how ergonomic everything is. Sure, there are some things that I would miss from Python like list comprehensions, but when Golang is blazing fast compiled, do I still miss them? I surely do not miss the pre-optimization going on in my head whenever I write Python.
Coming from the shithole called the Python packaging ecosystem, Golang set me free. No longer do I have to suffer from pip refusing to install packages, Poetry trying to do weird shit, using virtualenv to create "safe" spaces; Golang allows me to do the most important part of coding itself: the code. Dockerfiles with Python almost always devolve into some unholy incantation of pip and some demonic workaround to "get it right".
No longer do I have to start thinking about how Python would shank me sideways for "poor" coding decisions; Golang coding styles are simple but straightforward. Golang tests all function calls to make sure that they match the type signatures. The development cycle is tight and fast.
I just spend an hour yesterday reading about how Flask only has one event loop and one worker, how multiple requests are shared by one worker, oh-my-what-a-terrible-decision-please-use-ASGIS, worrying about having to move to a "production" quality server set up, and all that noise. If I have to read one more "comprehensive" guide on asyncio, threading, subprocesses, and how I need to do some convoluted set up just to get concurrency, I'd rather just git init a new Golang project. On Golang, concurrency is already built into net/http.
After countless of dead projects that my hard drive only knows of, I feel like Golang has truly pushed my determination to places I've never been before. It's exhilarating and exciting. Experienced Golang devs, let me have thismoment, before I crawl back into the depths of Python.
Woo-wee! Evil Morty! That was quite a scheme. Makes me wonder if there's an evil me out there. But I guess, sometimes I look at my life, and I may not even need ‘im. Cuz, well, guess I made a pretty big mess of things myself. Ooo eee. I never got my job at the university back. Remember that? Rick made me do karate. It was kinda funny, but I guess things went downhill from there. Started isolating myself from Amy. Used to tell her everything I was feeling. But then I guess I stopped. Cuz I wanted her to love who she thought I was, not who I felt myself becoming. Ever think about how horrified the people we love would be if they found out who we truly are? So we just dig ourselves deeper, into our lies every day, ultimately only hurting the people who were brave enough to love us. Wish I didn't do that. Wish I was brave enough to love them back. I don't know. Maybe you should try it. We don't have as much time as we think. Ooo eee.
- Mr. Poopybutthole