Go at Digital Ocean
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#2When I joined DO it was transitioning out of it's very Perlly beginnings - one of the engineers was pushing for rust. I guess Go won, and it's nice to see they have picked up such an awesome competency in building with it. https://github.com/digitalocean?language=go (also Grumpy MacB reference who wrote the first go service at DO is one of the best engineers I've ever met, and also one of the nicest dudes: https://github.com/macb)
Re: Go at Digital Ocean
#3When I joined DO it was transitioning out of it's very Perlly beginnings - one of the engineers was pushing for rust. I guess Go won, and it's nice to see they have picked up such an awesome competency in building with it. https://github.com/digitalocean?language=go (also Grumpy MacB reference who wrote the first go service at DO is one of the best engineers I've ever met, and also one of the nicest dudes: https://gi…
While rust is the safer, and more featureful language, I think Go is quite possibly the better pick for large corporations just due to it's simplicity. Rust to me is the more interesting language, but it definitely offers more power and more choice -- they probably did the right thing by going for Go IMO.
Also really cool to see all the tooling they've built up -- all of the things mentioned seem really cool, "who's gonna clean up all the stale branches" is definitely a question that gets asked (and answered) at more companies that it probably should.
Re: Go at Digital Ocean
#4When I joined DO it was transitioning out of it's very Perlly beginnings - one of the engineers was pushing for rust. I guess Go won, and it's nice to see they have picked up such an awesome competency in building with it. https://github.com/digitalocean?language=go (also Grumpy MacB reference who wrote the first go service at DO is one of the best engineers I've ever met, and also one of the nicest dudes: https://gi…
While rust is the safer, and more featureful language, I think Go is quite possibly the better pick for large corporations just due to it's simplicity. Rust to me is the more interesting language, but it definitely offers more power and more choice -- they probably did the right thing by going for Go IMO. Also really cool to see all the tooling they've built up -- all of the things mentioned seem really cool, "who's…
Many big companies are shipping Rust. There's ones we know about, like Oracle, and there's ones we've only heard whispers of, like a poster on the Reddit who claims they are shipping Rust at a Fortune 500 company.
That said, Go makes sense for a lot of the things DO does.
Re: Go at Digital Ocean
#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
While rust is the safer, and more featureful language, I think Go is quite possibly the better pick for large corporations just due to it's simplicity. Rust to me is the more interesting language, but it definitely offers more power and more choice -- they probably did the right thing by going for Go IMO. Also really cool to see all the tooling they've built up -- all of the things mentioned seem really cool, "who's…
Many big companies are shipping Rust. There's ones we know about, like Oracle, and there's ones we've only heard whispers of, like a poster on the Reddit who claims they are shipping Rust at a Fortune 500 company. That said, Go makes sense for a lot of the things DO does.
What's Oracle doing with Rust?
Re: Go at Digital Ocean
#6When I joined DO it was transitioning out of it's very Perlly beginnings - one of the engineers was pushing for rust. I guess Go won, and it's nice to see they have picked up such an awesome competency in building with it. https://github.com/digitalocean?language=go (also Grumpy MacB reference who wrote the first go service at DO is one of the best engineers I've ever met, and also one of the nicest dudes: https://gi…
While rust is the safer, and more featureful language, I think Go is quite possibly the better pick for large corporations just due to it's simplicity. Rust to me is the more interesting language, but it definitely offers more power and more choice -- they probably did the right thing by going for Go IMO. Also really cool to see all the tooling they've built up -- all of the things mentioned seem really cool, "who's…
Another possible reason: my understanding is that Go works really well for web apps (including the standard library covering http and templates), while Rust isn't as strong there. But I might just have seen less web-focused Rust; are there any good frameworks for web apps in Rust?
Re: Go at Digital Ocean
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Many big companies are shipping Rust. There's ones we know about, like Oracle, and there's ones we've only heard whispers of, like a poster on the Reddit who claims they are shipping Rust at a Fortune 500 company. That said, Go makes sense for a lot of the things DO does.
What's Oracle doing with Rust?
Writing container runtimes https://blogs.oracle.com/developers/building-a-container-run... (Github link at the end there)
Re: Go at Digital Ocean
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
While rust is the safer, and more featureful language, I think Go is quite possibly the better pick for large corporations just due to it's simplicity. Rust to me is the more interesting language, but it definitely offers more power and more choice -- they probably did the right thing by going for Go IMO. Also really cool to see all the tooling they've built up -- all of the things mentioned seem really cool, "who's…
Many big companies are shipping Rust. There's ones we know about, like Oracle, and there's ones we've only heard whispers of, like a poster on the Reddit who claims they are shipping Rust at a Fortune 500 company. That said, Go makes sense for a lot of the things DO does.
I also think Rust is the more interesting choice, but the company I work for went with Go. It does seem to be the more popular choice.
Re: Go at Digital Ocean
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Many big companies are shipping Rust. There's ones we know about, like Oracle, and there's ones we've only heard whispers of, like a poster on the Reddit who claims they are shipping Rust at a Fortune 500 company. That said, Go makes sense for a lot of the things DO does.
I also think Rust is the more interesting choice, but the company I work for went with Go. It does seem to be the more popular choice.
Yeah, Go being stable earlier, plus being so simple is great for its adoption. That said, Rust and Go have some overlap, but also areas where each is clearly the better choice. There's no reason this needs to be a zero-sum thing!
Re: Go at Digital Ocean
#10When I joined DO it was transitioning out of it's very Perlly beginnings - one of the engineers was pushing for rust. I guess Go won, and it's nice to see they have picked up such an awesome competency in building with it. https://github.com/digitalocean?language=go (also Grumpy MacB reference who wrote the first go service at DO is one of the best engineers I've ever met, and also one of the nicest dudes: https://gi…
While rust is the safer, and more featureful language, I think Go is quite possibly the better pick for large corporations just due to it's simplicity. Rust to me is the more interesting language, but it definitely offers more power and more choice -- they probably did the right thing by going for Go IMO. Also really cool to see all the tooling they've built up -- all of the things mentioned seem really cool, "who's…
I'm a big fan of doing fancy things on CI, so I'm always looking for cool ideas there. This talk seems to mostly be about tooling around dependencies, though, so your comparison to Rust is interesting: Rust's cargo is all-around wonderful IMHO and seems to support everything DO needed and built themselves (incl. multiple versions of dependencies, tooling for mono-repo workspaces, etc.).