alt Hacker NewsDeclaring a highly successful language as having the basics wrong means that you are not correct about the basics that were needed.
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Something can be highly succesful in spite of having glaring design flaws. Nobody is claiming go isn't wildly succesful, but it's _in spite_ of these issues. It was clear over a decade ago that iota, gopath, and lack of generics were massive kneecaps to the language; go changing it's mind on those things isn't progress it's just getting the fundamentals wrong.
A good example of where they're kind of stuck is date formatting - it's stupid, unclear, and likely a mistake, but it's not a fundamental flaw; it's just a quirk.
It's a highly successful language because (1) it was backed by Google, and (2) created by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson.
If it came out of anywhere else, it might have struggled even to hit the homepage here.
By that logic Windows would be the best operating system ever and perfect in every way, and anyone who disagrees must be wrong about how an OS should be.
So you mean to say that PHP5 and Js from 2007 had a well-founded design?
The basics of a programming language were wrong. The basics of marketing were very right. Those are not the same.
An engineer, of course, understands that there is no such thing as "wrong", only different tradeoffs, but with the rise of "vibe coding" you don't need to be an engineer to play in the world of programming anymore.
cough JavaScript cough
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better