> by factors more productive than the same work I've done in C#
are you exaggerating here? C# is already the most productive language in my toolkit. It's easy to write reams of code that just works in C#. I should have a look at Go then. (edit forgot a word)
I measure my productivity in a language by how little code I can write to accomplish my goal. You seem to be saying the opposite?
EDIT: I guess you are saying something slightly different: that you can produce reams of C# code that works out of the box without many iterations. "reams" to me implies boilerplate & excessive ceremony, but I shouldn't assume that about your work =)
Shouldn't productivity be measured in how much time it takes to solve problems? The amount of code produced at the end is only relevant if typing is a significant portion of your time spent. Typing is rarely my bottleneck.
Agree that typing speed is not the bottleneck when writing code, but there is something to be said for writing fewer lines of code that are also easy to understand (ie. overly clever code that is concise is often a negative). That should make maintenance and debugging easier as there is less code in which to introduce bugs and less code to load into your brain when returning to it later.
No I wouldn't be saying I produce reams of boilerplate like it's a good thing ;) I meant, and I'm sure you've experience this, that the language doesn't get in the way of realizing the program that's still in my head. Every interruption spent tracking down some language quirk is probably double the time or more to get back into the flow of it. It's really a shame Microsoft doesn't do more to make C# more portable.
The reason you write less code in Go is because there is less complexity. Similar to F# vs C#:
http://fpbridge.co.uk/why-fsharp.html (checkout the call graph comparisons. I believe a Haskell call graph would be similar, but I could be very wrong.
I don't see the irony. It's a contrast of a class based and object oriented language vs a functional language. The functional language leads to a much simpler call graph than the OOP language.
are you exaggerating here? C# is already the most productive language in my toolkit. It's easy to write reams of code that just works in C#. I should have a look at Go then. (edit forgot a word)