There is a dangerously large population of devs and managers that look at themselves, unironically, as the gigachads pumping out ui “upgrades”
Many of these fail to realize how disruptive it is. UI change is like API breakage for the brain.
I have lost track of how many times I’ve tried to help an elderly family member with an app after some pointless, trivial, ui change. Only ending with them entirely giving up on using the app after the “upgrade” because the cognitive overhead of the change is beyond the skill that can fairly be expected for them 💔
The context package is such a big mistake. But at this point we just have to live with it and accept our fate because it’s used everywhere
It adds boilerplate everywhere, is easily misused, can cause resource leaks, has highly ambiguous conotations for methods that take a ctx: Does the function do IO? Is it cancellable? What transactional semantics are there if you cancel the context during method execution.
Almost all devs just blindly throw it around without thinking about these things
And dont get me startet on all the ctx.Value() calls that traverse a linked list
Postgres and MySQL/mariadb are all primarily written in C.
Contrary to what other posters here claim, most programming languages are not written in C, but are self hosted. Ie. written using themselves. This usually involves a small bootstrapping component written in C or something similar, but that is a minor part of a whole
That we stop fawning over tech CEOs
Thank you for saying this. Sometimes I feel like I sm the only one thinking like this 🙇♥️
Pet peeve: don’t use string keys. It invites key collision errors. Use the fact Go supports structs as keys in maps. Safer and more efficient.
Sorry dude