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#7 given Go can't compare to Python on ecosystem breadth and depth, its a curious choice of "reason to switch"
It's been a while since I wanted something in Go that wasn't available, other than the obvious big-ticket items like NumPy which are ecosystems unto themselves. (Or, to put it another way, yeah, Go doesn't have NumPy, but neither does anybody else other than Python at this point.) YMMV, of course, but it's certainly not a routine occurrence.
So they switched to Go from Python, because of following advantages: #1 Performance #2 Performance (to make the list longer I guess?) #5 Fast compile time... which is an advantage over Python how exactly? #7 Strong ecosystem... which brings us to disadvantage #1 - lack of frameworks (?)
> Revel, Iris, Echo, Macaron and Buffalo seem to be the leading contenders.
If you're talking about MVC-era frameworks these are fine. However a lot of companies are using Go for microservices so I would highly recommend looking at https://goa.design/ and https://gokit.io/
I read somewhere on HackerNews that Python is kinda like a default language and rest such as Go, C, C++, Java are just for Optimization, once you figure out your solution.
I read somewhere on HackerNews that Python is kinda like a default language and rest such as Go, C, C++, Java are just for Optimization, once you figure out your solution.
On first startup we used Tcl, and C code for performance, similar to what is fashionable with Python nowadays. I had enough of the rewrite in C experience that since then, if the language doesn't come with a compiler on the box, either JIT or AOT, I only see it as scripting language for sysadmin work or learning purposes.
>[Go] is almost as fast as languages like C++ and Java. It seems like only a couple of years ago when Java's speed was the butt of many a joke. The JVM has come a long way. As someone who doesn't work in Java and doesn't have a horse in this race, I find their turnaround impressive.
Nim is another option if you're wanting a language faster than Python, but with high productivity. The ecosystem is not quite there yet though. Nexus dev framework should help somewhat: https://nexusdev.tools
THe ecosystem alone is putting me off comitting to Nim over Python. Although that attitude is a bit chicken and egg
I've actually written a lot of code and have used it for my own projects for some time, just need to get the release out now.
"Developer productivity and not getting too creative" is NOT a point in favor of Go. Go does not have a lot of batteries included. Things like error handling, logging, test bootstrapping, etc, require consensus on the team and tight coordination. Every project is basically its own framework. Most teams are not that well-oiled. They are going to find this out the hard way. And fast? Please. If your database queries ar…
This is a "wut?" moment for me. Why add this external factor, when it's totally irrelevant and the article doesn't even mention it?
I think Go and Angular should have died, and would already be footnotes in programming history if they had not been introduced by Google. Let's make procedural programming great again? I get it, you can compile it and it has concurrency, but there's better alternatives in my mind, unfortunately not as popular.
It wasn't as hard to grok as C or Rust, it wasn't as slow as Ruby, Python or PHP. most of all, it it was designed to make use of multiple cores. Surprisingly, having testing and formatting built into the tooling is also a huge win after spending years debating and changing choices in scripting land.
Go is the new PHP/Node.js and Rust is the replacement for everything else. I know this is technically wrong, but that's how it feels.