kevingoslar

No.

Since my original post is now flagged and hidden, what I said is no longer visible and I cannot let these misinterpretations stand unaddressed. I said that not everything that appears like racism or sexism might actually have a racist or sexist background, and might actually be more a random abuse by a dark personality type which hasn't learned to use their powers in more constructive ways yet. For example, abuse as narcissistic supply.

That's not an attempt to downplay or excuse anything but an attempt to understand the underlying causes of problems better since that is a prerequisite for addressing them effectively.

It's beyond me how the statement "most men are actually nice people" could be interpreted as sexist in any way.

I'd maintain that awareness, training, and tooling are essential for achieving constructive outcomes here. Without knowing that one has dark personality traits, and thereby a particular way of experiencing the world and pleasure/reward that is different from how most people experience it, it's hard to not unintentionally develop abusive behavioral patterns. Goals develop from a world view. Improve somebody's perspective and their goals adjust.

Knowing that one deals with a dark personality makes it easier to adjust one's interactions and expectations to them and not fall for possible abuse.

Every problem can be solved with enough understanding.

Please note that the article merely encourages the application of some of the best practices introduced by functional programming - strong typing and more mindfulness around mutability and side effects - into all forms of programming.

Functional programming as it exists today takes these ideas to a somewhat extreme form. That has its place and value, but as experience in the real world shows, as long as it feels so mathematical, it isn't everybody's cup of tea. Hopefully, over time we find more intuitively accessible abstractions for the really useful principles that functional programming is based on.

Agreed, sorry for the paywall. Is there a better place to post such stories than Medium?

I also don't expect that a lot of the existing Java code will be rewritten in Go. But there exists a whole array of startups/unicorns today who use Go extensively. Many of them will grow into enterprises. I predict that Go will generally hold up well for them as they scale. They will feel a lot less of an urge to switch to something more mature and scalable like Java, as many companies who started out with Ruby, Scala, or PHP did.

I often see enterprises using a mix of languages and technologies (depending on how independent the different org units within it are) and some amount of Java fatigue in developers who are not retiring in less than a decade. Go is often amongst the top choices they are exploring.