the_other_guy

when I stated my argument I was accused of being ad hominem, making sarcastic, content-free snarks on barely related HN posts, arguing against enums is as stupid as arguing for null pointers (which ironically exist in golang too!), it's not minimalism if you don't have enums, it's intentionally lacking an elementary feature that does exist in almost every other modern (well, in even old) language, you can argue with "deal with it" just like it was the case with package management, error handling and many other features, that wouldn't be as bad as derailing the argument to "enums are not necessary"

also, I feel strong about getting rid of cancer, should I write a treatise about the importance of getting rid of cancer since you may consider that not very important too?

It's hard to argue with someone who sees these 2 examples are the SAME thing, if you really see the 2nd example is equivalent in _SAFETY_ and readability as the first one, you probably haven't written much code or used many languages

In every other language, people keep arguing about advanced features, moving forward and such, only in Go people defend the undefendable and reject any kind of the simplest obvious improvements, I say so and I am sad because I use Golang very heavily, it's sad to see a modern language so popular and its core designers are still stubborn about doing anything in the right direction even if it is as simple as adding enums

that wasn't even the point of my comment, you're insisting on derailing my argument and reducing it to something I cannot verify, and seriosuly, wtf do you think HN users are? housewives or wall street bankers? HN is an online community for tech workers especially software engineers, insisting on giving the evidence that 99% exactly of the users are software engineers is childish to say the least

I already stated my argument, you're the one who's trying to invalidate it without offering any counter argument

>Citation Needed

nice way to invalidate my whole argument

I guess it depends on the category, for something like a database it can be easy to charge money (e.g. managed instances, charging cloud vendors, etc...) but something like frontend javascript framework it's almost impossible to do that

Golang is awesome once you submit and accept its intentionally mediocre design as a work of mysteriously genius simplicity. I did that myself and now I love it.