Started using Go for my latest project (a successor to Evernote). It feels like such a relief, especially having just come out of a node.js project. It's everything I wanted in a (web-app) programming language, and for the first time I can say that a language has actually made my code better. I've never had a codebase this clean before.
Six years of Go
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Re: Six years of Go
#52I'd say after 6 years adoption rate has been rather lackluster
I'm assuming you trolls down vote because you know it's true. I've tried to use Go, I think it's syntax and unique style sucks compared to C#, Java, Python or even JavaScript.
As for why you were downvoted: Accusing the majority of users on a forum of being trolls usually doesn't fly and it didn't fly this time either.
Re: Six years of Go
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is fairly clear by now that omitting generics is not an oversight, but rather a design choice. If you disagree, it sounds like Go isn't for you. Maybe it's time to just move on and ignore it instead of beating a dead horse. I am always confused by the push to make every language exactly the same by using the same paradigms and features. Some languages try to take a different approach. If you can't figure out how t…
> not an oversight, but rather a design choice Why not both?
You can choose an oversight? Once chosen, it ceases to be, no?
Re: Six years of Go
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Go brings some good things to the table, yes. I've seen it's popularity rise in recent years, but it seems to be rising slowly. There are a ton of companies that can be listed for almost every technology. Then name any company using Swift to the level Dropbox uses Go, or retract your claim. Go code looks nothing like C other than general brace styling. I can't decide if you're trolling or just genuinely this ignora…
Just stating my opinion, not trying to troll. I said "C like" because it is very much different than any C like language I'm used to. Dropbox was using Python as a main technology stack not that long ago so I'm not all that surprised they are seeing huge gains using Go. If Go gains more traction I'll consider using it, until that time, 6 years have gone by and I personally haven't seen anybody asking for Go in the Wa…
> Dropbox was using Python as a main technology stack not that long ago so I'm not all that surprised they are seeing huge gains using Go
They still use Python if you read down the Twitter thread, but I can name so many more. Cloudflare for example.
The likely reason you see such a difference is that the languages are suited to different things. Swift for example is all but mandatory for iOS apps, and so this is not adoption but migration. If you're just looking for small freelance projects then I expect Go will be a long time coming, but if you're looking for large infrastructure work you'll find an awful lot of people very interested in Go.
Re: Six years of Go
#55Go seems like a fun language that has been sitting on my "look into it list" for a while, can't belive it's already six years old. Since the TensorFlow video post is currently on the frontpage as well...as someone who uses neither C++ nor Go (I can write FizzBuzz level of code in both and read both well enough to get what's going on) I have to wonder how much internal buyin Go really has at Google if the core of such…
Go is a language designed by Google people, but it is very much not the standard Google language. Most things Google does aren't done in Go.
Having said that Rob Pike told me that Go is now one of Google's "official languages".
Re: Six years of Go
#56I'd say after 6 years adoption rate has been rather lackluster
That certainly doesn't feel the case where I am. I suppose it may depend on your work field and environment.
Re: Six years of Go
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maybe not specific to language, but compared to projects like Angular, React etc... Go has much less traction. Swift is a new language and is already much more widely used.
Not going to debate your claim, but Swift is an unfair comparison, as it is practically forced upon you if you want develop for one of the most important platforms today (you can of course still write stuff in objC, but Apple has made it clear that you'd better learn Swift).
what are the advantages of swift? Having programmed in neither, swift looks like a toy language to me
Re: Six years of Go
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
Go is a language designed by Google people, but it is very much not the standard Google language. Most things Google does aren't done in Go.
Having said that Rob Pike told me that Go is now one of Google's "official languages".
... which just means developers at Go now have permission to use it, along with Python, Java, and C++, to build things, right?
Re: Six years of Go
#59I find it curious that virtually any negative or critical comments about Go get downvoted.
Re: Six years of Go
#60Started using Go for my latest project (a successor to Evernote). It feels like such a relief, especially having just come out of a node.js project. It's everything I wanted in a (web-app) programming language, and for the first time I can say that a language has actually made my code better. I've never had a codebase this clean before.
I understand the basics of Go, but do you have any advice on where to start using it for web app development? Any framework that you're using (if one at all)?