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New comment by fooooor in "Go 1.27 Interactive Tour"

fooooor — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 15:09:57 +0000

On the contrary, linq in C# is a killer function that other languages still fail to replicate.

How many sloc are required for this?

var max = mycollection.Max();

Probably 5-10 if you’re missing higher order functions. And the risk of bugs will be 10x.

New comment by fooooor in "Go 1.27 Interactive Tour"

fooooor — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 15:00:41 +0000

I still don’t understand why Go isn’t the primary supported language for android.

New comment by fooooor in "Go 1.27 Interactive Tour"

fooooor — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 14:58:57 +0000

Luddites don’t use syntax highlighting though.

New comment by fooooor in "Go 1.27 Interactive Tour"

fooooor — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 14:57:44 +0000

No it’s definitely not that simple. Code are read more often than written, no one works in a vacuum, especially not in open source. Also, when in Rome...

New comment by fooooor in "Go 1.27 Interactive Tour"

fooooor — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 14:50:48 +0000

Lambdas usually have short variable names because the scope is small, typically half a line. And that is fine, even optimal.

New comment by fooooor in "Go 1.27 Interactive Tour"

fooooor — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 14:40:04 +0000

What could be more idiomatic than:

for (int i=0; i<10; i++) { printf(”%d\n”, i); }

(Or the very similar Go equivalent)

If you having a hard time parsing that, due to the short variable name, i.e. if it’s a huge cognitive load for you, I suggest you switch career, b/c the IT industry is obviously not a good fit.

With that said, Go is explicit with suggesting short variable names for small scopes, and long variable names for bigger scopes. This a good practice in all languages.