Copy/paste is very error prone. Golang code is full of it. I see lots of similar...

mikeschinkel · on July 18, 2019

Curious, do you see other communities that are not passionate about their languages?

pjmlp · on July 18, 2019

With the difference that Visual Basic is an academic language full of needless features from Go's community point of view.

mikeschinkel · on July 18, 2019

Visual Basic is hardly academic; they is a tremendous amount of line-of-business code that has been written in VB over the past 25 years.

But yeah, Go dev do not see VB's features as being "features."

pjmlp · on July 19, 2019

The point was that many of VB.NET features are what many in the community attack as being academic and not worthy of being adopted by Go.

mikeschinkel · on July 19, 2019

Given that I have worked with VB long before .NET even existed, I have a broader view of it than just the more recent criticisms.

VB's biggest problem IMO is that it tried to compete with C# instead of maintaining its original raison d'être which was to be a highly productive tool that required very little programming skill to be able to start building real solutions for business use.

But I digress...