Your critique (which seems valid; I'm not a Go expert) does not exactly instill confidence in the Pragmatic Programmer (PP) brand.
When I read material from them, I would have assumed I'd be seeing "idiomatic code from an expert"...not "hey, I'm a newbie hacking my way around in a new language, here's what I typed out in 2 days of playing with it".
I mean, I understand they're big on the "learning a new language on a regular basis thing", but when I see code published like this, specifically from their brand, I go into it thinking "okay, this should be high quality, idiomatic code."
...guess I'll be more careful with that assumption.
(EDIT: If this is just some personal blog, I guess I'd understand; I saw "magazine" in the URL and got the impression this was published as part of their magazine/PDF series.)
When I read material from them, I would have assumed I'd be seeing "idiomatic code from an expert"...not "hey, I'm a newbie hacking my way around in a new language, here's what I typed out in 2 days of playing with it".
I mean, I understand they're big on the "learning a new language on a regular basis thing", but when I see code published like this, specifically from their brand, I go into it thinking "okay, this should be high quality, idiomatic code."
...guess I'll be more careful with that assumption.
(EDIT: If this is just some personal blog, I guess I'd understand; I saw "magazine" in the URL and got the impression this was published as part of their magazine/PDF series.)