"The world is laaaarge. The number of projects are basically infinite. Even if I carve out a tiny subset of infinite, that’s still infinite."
I liked the use of this wisdom in there.
Go is my hammer, and everything is a nail
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Re: Go is my hammer, and everything is a nail
#12If all you know is a Hammer… I was searching for reasons why to use the Go-Hammer when there are comparable ones such as Java, C#, etc. but the article left me wanting. It strikes me that Go is riding the peak of hype languages, succeeding Rust and Node.js (which are all good pieces of technology and absolutely have their merit). And like with most hype driven decisions there is little (self) awareness of context and…
Go is getting hype because TS is old news. And people got tired of being nerd sniped into trying Rust and being let down.
It’s okay, hype cycles are good since it shakes up mainstream opinion and gets people to try stuff. Like a new trendy food. I don’t feel much in the ways about it.
How do you feel about Go outside of the hype cycle?
Re: Go is my hammer, and everything is a nail
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Re: Go is my hammer, and everything is a nail
#14If all you know is a Hammer… I was searching for reasons why to use the Go-Hammer when there are comparable ones such as Java, C#, etc. but the article left me wanting. It strikes me that Go is riding the peak of hype languages, succeeding Rust and Node.js (which are all good pieces of technology and absolutely have their merit). And like with most hype driven decisions there is little (self) awareness of context and…
Thanks for posting this.
It’s an unfortunate choice of “one hammer to rule them all” given Go does not offer necessary coverage at both low and high ends of abstraction (and performance) the way C# does. For me, it’s a similar kind of hammer.
(I prefer to think of it as a crowbar ;D)
Re: Go is my hammer, and everything is a nail
#15I wish Go had a decent UI framework though.
Go has FyneUI, and it's great
Re: Go is my hammer, and everything is a nail
#16If all you know is a Hammer… I was searching for reasons why to use the Go-Hammer when there are comparable ones such as Java, C#, etc. but the article left me wanting. It strikes me that Go is riding the peak of hype languages, succeeding Rust and Node.js (which are all good pieces of technology and absolutely have their merit). And like with most hype driven decisions there is little (self) awareness of context and…
> It strikes me that Go is riding the peak of hype languages. Very much so. Also it seems to be a strange choice as a solo developer when its strengths are explicitly targeted at large organizations. And I think the tooling is actually a bit of a mess compared to some other options. God help you if as a solo developer you start building on top of protobufs (another basically default choice in the Golang world...). I…
> I just don't understand why you wouldn't choose something faster and more expressive.
The answer to this is as simple as genuinely asking, answering, and understanding why you don't do all of your development in assembly language.
Re: Go is my hammer, and everything is a nail
#17I wish Go had a decent UI framework though.
Can you give me an example of a decent UI framework? Or frameworks?
(I'm not a GUI programmer, but I've been dabbling a bit using Fyne. I figured that in the C++/C# sphere UI frameworks especially on Windows were sorted out until I read an article by some frustrated individual who listed all the problems he has with various UI frameworks on Windows. So I realized that perhaps this isn't as well sorted as I thought. I don't actually know)
Re: Go is my hammer, and everything is a nail
#18You could have written the same article about C#.
Re: Go is my hammer, and everything is a nail
#19If all you know is a Hammer… I was searching for reasons why to use the Go-Hammer when there are comparable ones such as Java, C#, etc. but the article left me wanting. It strikes me that Go is riding the peak of hype languages, succeeding Rust and Node.js (which are all good pieces of technology and absolutely have their merit). And like with most hype driven decisions there is little (self) awareness of context and…
> It strikes me that Go is riding the peak of hype languages. Very much so. Also it seems to be a strange choice as a solo developer when its strengths are explicitly targeted at large organizations. And I think the tooling is actually a bit of a mess compared to some other options. God help you if as a solo developer you start building on top of protobufs (another basically default choice in the Golang world...). I…
Protobuf is not the default in Go the default is REST. What tools are a mess? Go tooling ( runtime ) and IDE integration is very good.
Go is not a hyped language, we're past that cycle, some critical and widely used software are built in Go, millions of people rely on it.
Re: Go is my hammer, and everything is a nail
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It strikes me that Go is riding the peak of hype languages. Very much so. Also it seems to be a strange choice as a solo developer when its strengths are explicitly targeted at large organizations. And I think the tooling is actually a bit of a mess compared to some other options. God help you if as a solo developer you start building on top of protobufs (another basically default choice in the Golang world...). I…
> I just don't understand why you wouldn't choose something faster and more expressive. The answer to this is as simple as genuinely asking, answering, and understanding why you don't do all of your development in assembly language.
I didn't mean faster in terms of execution time but in terms of development time. And more expressive is doing more with less code.
We're at complete opposite ends of the spectrum here -- how that indicated to you that I meant assembly...