alt Hacker NewsFrom all available evidence, there is no chance in hell Go could adopt a `with` statement.
Go is fascinating in how long it holds out on some of the most basic, obviously valuable constructs (generics, error handling, package management) because The Community cannot agree.
- Generics took 13 years from the open source release.
- 16 years in there isn’t error handling.
- Package management took about 9 years.
There’s value to deliberation and there’s value to shipping. My guess is that the people writing 900 GH comments would still write Go and be better off by the language having something vs. kicking the can down the road.
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> My guess is that the people writing 900 GH comments would still write Go and be better off by the language having something vs. kicking the can down the road.
My guess is they will still write Go even if error handling stays the same forever.
We already have languages that ship features. Go is a lone lighthouse of stability in a sea of fancy languages. I'll play with your fancy languages, but I build my own projects that I actually use in Go because I can trust that it will keep working for a long time and if/when I need to go back to it to fix something in a couple of years I don't need to re-learn a bunch of crap that might have seeped through dependencies or the stdlib.