What is it with programmers (or maybe just Reddit programmers?) and language zealotry? Like, I understand that it's a thing, but I'm really surprised that I got attacked for saying in a question about language idioms that #golang has a non-expressive type system and using a #rust example to show what I was struggling with. Like, what the heck?
@astrumsystema /r/programming is the worst. I prefer HN; there's still some zealotry, but it's mostly well-informed and I usually learn something from those who criticize $MY_LANG. Ironically, /r/programming hates #golang as much (or more than) #PHP or #JavaScript. Apparently it's impossible to build a program without statically-typed generics or ADTs (unless your language is dynamically typed, then it's ok).
