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openSUSE Logo Contest Concludes With Winners Selected (www.phoronix.com)
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For those that were interested in the openSUSE logo contest, the voting wrapped up on Tuesday and the results of this logo contest for new openSUSE branding have been selected.

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[–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works -4 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I know this is dumb, but cute animal logos is the reason I refuse to learn Go.

[–] janAkali@lemmy.one 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

IMO, go's gopher is ugly, not cute. But, anyway, there are better reasons not to learn Go.

[–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm curious to know those reasons. I'd like to pretend that I have a valid argument against Go.

[–] janAkali@lemmy.one 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

For one - the error handling. Every codebase is filled with messy, hard to type:

if err != nil {
    ...
}

And it doesn't even give you a stack trace to debug the problem when an error happens, apparently.

Second reason - it lacks many features that are generally available in most other languages. Generics is the big one, but thankfully they added them in last half a year or so. In general Golang's design principle is to implement only the required minimum.

And probably most important - Go is owned by Google, aka the "all seeing eye of Sauron". There was recently a big controversy with them proposing adding an on-by-default telemetry to the compiler. And with the recent trend of enshittification, I wouldn't trust google or any other mega-corporation.

[–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

Yeah the "owned by google" thing is a big turn-off. And telemetry... he'll no. Also it's weird that Go doesn't have a ternary. It's a small thing, but it's a thing.

[–] BarrierWithAshes@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

That gopher is literally the reason I have been considering learning go. Same with plan 9.

[–] DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Guess you're stuck with C++

[–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Right, the only other language.

[–] DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Because it has an animal mascot that's not cute.

[–] savvywolf@pawb.social 5 points 10 months ago

Poor Keith. ;_;

[–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

I didn't even know they has a mascot. And now my idiot-brain wants to learn c++ for a bad reason (on top of some good reasons).