Opening up the opinion box

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

Mat Ryer and Jerod Santo sit down to review and discuss the MOST and LEAST unpopular “unpopular opinions” since we started keeping track of such things. Also Generics.

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Featuring:

• Grant Seltzer Richman – Website, GitHub, X
• Steve High – GitHub, X
• Jon Sabados – Website, GitHub, X
• Jay Conrod – Website, GitHub, X
• Ian Lopshire – GitHub, X
• Preslav Rachev – GitHub, X
• Mark Bates – Website, GitHub, X
• Marcel van Lohuizen – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Carolyn Van Slyck – Website, GitHub, X
• Mislav Marohnić – Website, GitHub, X
• Kris Brandow – GitHub, X
• Natalie Pistunovich – GitHub, X
• Michael Knyszek – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
• Bill Kennedy – Website, GitHub, X
• Ramiro Berrelleza – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Daniel Martí – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X
• Mat Ryer – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

MOST unpopular

1. Baseball is the most exciting sport in the world (Grant Steltzer on episode #159)
2. Using err as an error variable make code hard to read (Steve High on episode #179)
3. Chocolate is nasty (Jon Sabados on episode #174)
4. JS Party is better than Go Time (Jerod Santo (of course) on episode #154)
5. Copy/paste with formatting should be default (Jay Conrod on episode #187)

Runners up

• On episode #167 Ian Lopshire said he thinks futures have a place in Go
• On episode #183 Preslav Rachev said that Go needs more magic
• On episode #171 Mark Bates confessed he doesn’t particularly like bacon

LEAST unpopular

1. Inheritance and complexity in configuration languages (Marcel van Lohuizen on episode #163)
2. Disadvantages can become advantages as the world changes (Kris Brandow on episode #157)
3. The Go community lacks great GraphQL clients (Mislav Marohnić on episode #153)
4. Bad feedback better than no feedback from new users (Carolyn Van Slyck on episode #184)
5. Successful devs are stubborn (83% pop) (Jerod Santo on episode #167)

Runners up

• On episode #173 Natalie Pistunovich said if you have a decently paying job and aren’t in a minority/diversity group… don’t apply for diversity scholarships
• On episode #167 Kris Brandow said we try to make software engineering look too easy
• On episode #165 Michael Knyszek said Go’s garbage collector doesn’t need to become generational

Generic Opinions

• Not having Generics is good for Go (Ramiro Berrelleza on episode #177)
• We don’t need Generics in Go (Brian Ketelsen on episode #170)
• Investing so much into Generics is a mistake (Daniel Marti on episode #155)

Other thinks mentioned

• Mat’s GraphQL client
• Mislav on Git being too hard

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!