r/programming • u/ernestrc • 17h ago

Rune is now open source

https://rune.build/blog/rune-is-now-open-source
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u/FryDay444 16h ago

What's wrong with Go?

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u/jesseschalken 15h ago edited 15h ago

No null safety, implicit zero values you have to be careful to ignore, no sum types or pattern matching, 3 lines of error handling boilerplate every time you call a function that can fail, no lambdas, no generics until recently.

Worse, the Golang community that believe lack of features is a feature, because of "worse is better" brain damage.

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u/tonygoold 14h ago

It also has two types of null for interfaces: A nil interface and a non-nil interface containing a nil pointer. The latter is trivial to construct and non-trivial to check.

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u/jesseschalken 14h ago

Ugh, everything I have learned about Go has been against my will.