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I’ve only spent an hour or two here and there getting back into Go but I remembered why I liked it. It still reminds me of “what if C, but with all the rough edges sanded off”. Functions and structs, mostly simple by default, there’s a lot to like there.
Goland has some nice features too, although it did choke when I tried to import something from GitHub, it kept redlining it even though “go build” worked fine. Mysteriously got better after running “go mod init” manually, for some reason.
Go’s package vendoring system was changing when I last worked on it, & seems to have changed again, so I was a little confused. Still, worked in the end and Goland has some really nice auto completions which is helping me remember syntax.
I have a basic tool that pulls out Mastodon posts and have figured out enough of the bsky API that I’m confident I could make a cross poster; although there’s a bunch of tedious details. I’ll see how far I get in spare time before the Goland trial expires
@sinbad I've used Go once (fixing a bug in a web backend for something of a previous employer's), and I remember it feeling quite nice. Didn't take much fiddling and Googling docs to fix the bug.
@sinbad Go was a nice language (haven't used it since 2020-ish) but the whole modules system was a confusing clusterfuck. Whenever you thought you "got it" you could be sure that next time it would complain about something being wrong with Gopath or that alternative system they used for managing modules
@kwramm yeah I kinda preferred it when we just vendored our own deps manually