This is an unnecessary ad hominem attack. He wrote this over a decade ago, in the midst of doing his best work creating Go itself.
gob was his opinionated way of doing a Go-specific encoding, while also supporting any number of other encodings in the language. Go has incredibly good support for almost every popular encoding there is.
gob has also been used successfully by a number of projects. In many cases, it's a perfectly good way to encode a piece of data that is completely local to a Go program.
gob was his opinionated way of doing a Go-specific encoding, while also supporting any number of other encodings in the language. Go has incredibly good support for almost every popular encoding there is.
gob has also been used successfully by a number of projects. In many cases, it's a perfectly good way to encode a piece of data that is completely local to a Go program.