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At work we have recently started using Go. When I told one of my developer friends that I was doing some Go projects, he was confused and thought I meant "Pokemon Go". So yeah, you might have a point, sadly.
a developer who hasn’t heard of Go must live under some special kind of rock
I've been using Go on the side since mid-late 2013, so not nearly as long as some here, but I was heavily impressed by both Goroutines and channels as ideas, and by the net/http library. The general portability and simplicity of the language has made it nice for side-project work. I've since used go to write a blog engine, several APIs for school projects, and have been working on a scripting language (pisc.junglecod…
You know they didn't invent this right?
Go is actually 50 years old in terms of design insight.
I've been using Go on the side since mid-late 2013, so not nearly as long as some here, but I was heavily impressed by both Goroutines and channels as ideas, and by the net/http library. The general portability and simplicity of the language has made it nice for side-project work. I've since used go to write a blog engine, several APIs for school projects, and have been working on a scripting language (pisc.junglecod…
> but I was heavily impressed by both Goroutines and channels as ideas You know they didn't invent this right?
Go is actually 50 years old in terms of design insight.
Go is actually 50 years old in terms of design insight.
Perl was the glue language of the web and Go is the production language of the cloud.
I'm actually a bit scared to imagine a world in which Go was not created, given how much success I've personally had with it.
Thanks to the entire Go team.