Documentation for third-party modules in Python is fantastic, almost universally so. In nearly every case of using a third-party library, large or small, there's sufficient documentation to get up and running.

Golang libraries, however, seem to be the opposite. In most cases there's either no documentation whatsoever on how to use things, or, more commonly, there is example code in the readme which is out of date and does not work at all.

The IDE integration with golang is great, and it makes some of this a bit easier, but I also still get a ton of situations where my editor will offer some field or function that looks like what I want (and is what I'm typing to see if it will autocomplete) but once I select it it complains that there's no such field or function. Still haven't figured that out.

So yeah, I dunno. The language is 'great'; it certainly has some extreme strengths and conveniences, like the fact that 'run this function with these arguments in a separate thread' is a language keyword and not some deep dive into subprocess or threading or concurrent.futures; the fact that synchronization functionality is trivially easy to access; Sync.Once feels so extremely obvious for a language where concurrency is king, and so on.

Still, the ecosystem is... a bit of a mess, at the best of times. Good modules are great, all other modules are awful.

obviously we must keep the pressure up on payment processors to reverse course, but we also need to push back against people in society who think they can decide what other adults are allowed to do on their own time. If folks IRL have weird ideas pushed back on IRL we wouldn't get to crisis points like this.

Not that deportations are happening.

I’m assuming the creators of this site are attempting to make an economic argument for how Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad that the detentions are because it has “$1.49 billion” economic impact which is “$438.10 million annually in lost tax revenue”. But it is really a rather abusive perspective that ignores the inverse, because the inverse is that it is “$1.49 billion” that Americans are not earning and the “$438.10 million annually in lost tax revenue” would not have been lost if it had been Americans doing the work.

Arguably, the case could also even be made that the tax revenue would have been higher because Americans would have been paid higher wages simply due to the increased effects of the supply decline and demand that would increase wages/salaries.

Additionally, arguably, considering that official estimates are that foreign national workers of all manner send ~$150,000,000,00.00 out of the USA every year, that is also money that is not only not earned by Americans, or kept in the American economy.

No one seems to want to care about the actual American working and lower class. Why should foreign nationals that have broken the law and are being used by the ruling class to enrich themselves by lowering wages and salaries take priority over American citizens? Are we no longer doing this democracy thing? Do citizens no longer have rights in their own countries anymore; while we advocate for the “rights” of foreigners to remain in a country they did not even ask, let alone receive permission to be in?

It does not seem like that can go on indefinitely without things breaking, economically, culturally, socially. Are we just not going to care about that?