Caution: strong, justified anger and swears again.
TL;DR: Don’t code Go like Java. Think C or Lisp instead.
When you see a nearly empty Color struct with an Fprintf method just
to print a fucking color change to the screen you can absolutely smell
the Java stank from a mile away. This personal has no fucking idea how
terminal programming works, they just wanted their pretty colors, and so
did everyone else, now it’s the dominant package despite how uninformed
its design decisions were.
Who the fuck wants to call a constructor just to use standard curses terminal color?! Do you have any idea how fucking stupid it is to force a method call to change every terminal escape sequence every time when there when a perfectly good constant or variable containing the sequence would work just fine.
Oh my god, did you actually force calling yet another function just to combine the escape sequence start with the integer value of the escape? OMFG, you fucking moron!! That’s two method calls for ever fucking attribute change to the screen! You idiot! I mean, are you trying to slow down every terminal application in existence with this shit?
A better approach is to maintain all the supported terminal escapes in variables that can be emptied to empty strings if a terminal that does not support them is detected. You know, state management instead of forcing a function call every fucking time. Oh yeah, you have no idea what state is, probably ‘cuz you coded Java most of your life.
#rant #java #golang #terminal #curses