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Re: The State of Go

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Post by Scarbutt »

jrs95 wrote: post #16
joaodlf wrote: post #14

I don't share some of the opinions I see in the comments here. I've recently started programming in Go and I am having a blast. Plus, I am making my systems faster and simpler with Go. I love concurrency in Go. I love the concept of Goroutines, the simple and intuitive use of Select. Channels still present a few mysteries here and there... But I'll get it at some point. But the n#1 thing for me in Go is: It's written…

Especially when compared to working with something like Spring Boot every day it's fantastic. Getting rid of all the bloat is a bigger win than any of its unique features in my opinion.

Comparing Go directly to Spring Boot? ;)

Re: The State of Go

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Post by coldcode »

I for one will be more interested in using Go when Jetbrains finishes their IDE. Clearly not everyone cares to develop in an IDE but after 33 years of doing it, I prefer the idea. Give Swift (my current work) as many years as Go has had (10 years), and maybe I won't find Go that interesting any more.

Re: The State of Go

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Post by Thaxll »

greg7mdp wrote: post #7

My impression is that Go is a language that was cobbled together to simplify the coding of some specific applications, such as simple servers. It lacks any kind of purity, is not the best choice for any specific task, but is just good enough for some (many?) tasks. And poor type safety! Frankly, I can't help being disappointed by how bland this language is, and I have zero interest in using it. Maybe because I like c…

Not using Java the #1 server language? What do you code your server in C++?

Re: The State of Go

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Post by rpercy »

donpark wrote: post #24
greg7mdp wrote: post #7

My impression is that Go is a language that was cobbled together to simplify the coding of some specific applications, such as simple servers. It lacks any kind of purity, is not the best choice for any specific task, but is just good enough for some (many?) tasks. And poor type safety! Frankly, I can't help being disappointed by how bland this language is, and I have zero interest in using it. Maybe because I like c…

Go's blandness is a feature to me. It's not a joy to write but pleasant to read and understand which, sadly, won't matter unless Golang gains more popularity.

100% agree re: readability (as I've mentioned elsewhere).

I've actually been very surprised at the near-ubiquity of Go in the modern infrastructure/tools space though. Seems like each new OSS product I evaluate is written in Go. See companies like Cloudflare, Hashicorp, InfluxData, CoreOS, and, obviously, big projects like Kubernetes.

Re: The State of Go

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Post by cyri »

joaodlf wrote: post #14

I don't share some of the opinions I see in the comments here. I've recently started programming in Go and I am having a blast. Plus, I am making my systems faster and simpler with Go. I love concurrency in Go. I love the concept of Goroutines, the simple and intuitive use of Select. Channels still present a few mysteries here and there... But I'll get it at some point. But the n#1 thing for me in Go is: It's written…

Same here! I code Go for ~3 years in my spare time and PHP only for hard bucks

Re: The State of Go

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Post by [deleted] »

joaodlf wrote: post #14

I don't share some of the opinions I see in the comments here. I've recently started programming in Go and I am having a blast. Plus, I am making my systems faster and simpler with Go. I love concurrency in Go. I love the concept of Goroutines, the simple and intuitive use of Select. Channels still present a few mysteries here and there... But I'll get it at some point. But the n#1 thing for me in Go is: It's written…

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Re: The State of Go

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Post by greg7mdp »

jrs95 wrote: post #12
greg7mdp wrote: post #7

My impression is that Go is a language that was cobbled together to simplify the coding of some specific applications, such as simple servers. It lacks any kind of purity, is not the best choice for any specific task, but is just good enough for some (many?) tasks. And poor type safety! Frankly, I can't help being disappointed by how bland this language is, and I have zero interest in using it. Maybe because I like c…

It's used very heavily for everything container related. It seems to be an excellent fit there, at the very least. It's also becoming an increasingly popular choice for startups when they need performance, which used to be something Java or C++ were typically used for. Personally I've had a lot of fun using it, but prior to starting with it I'd mostly done Java and Node, so that may have something to do with it.

How can you write an efficient container without generics?

Re: The State of Go

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Post by rpercy »

coldcode wrote: post #32

I for one will be more interested in using Go when Jetbrains finishes their IDE. Clearly not everyone cares to develop in an IDE but after 33 years of doing it, I prefer the idea. Give Swift (my current work) as many years as Go has had (10 years), and maybe I won't find Go that interesting any more.

I've been using the Gogland beta for the last few weeks and it's been quite stable. For large codebases, it's hard to beat a good IDE's ability to quickly jump between symbols (go to definition, find usages, etc).

Re: The State of Go

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Post by [deleted] »

greg7mdp wrote: post #38
jrs95 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's used very heavily for everything container related. It seems to be an excellent fit there, at the very least. It's also becoming an increasingly popular choice for startups when they need performance, which used to be something Java or C++ were typically used for. Personally I've had a lot of fun using it, but prior to starting with it I'd mostly done Java and Node, so that may have something to do with it.

How can you write an efficient container without generics?

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