Why you should use Go

The parts of Go that make the most sense to me are the default static linking and the easy cross-compilation. rust does part of this, but C-dependent crates are easy to introduce (e.g. openssl-sys) and directly cause cross-compilation to be a disaster.

Re: Why you should use Go

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Post by _mlbt » Wed, Oct 23, 2024, 7:00 PM UTC

What do people use for authentication in Go web applications? To me that’s the big missing piece. Just about everything else is in the standard library.

Re: Why you should use Go

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Post by foolfoolz » Wed, Oct 23, 2024, 7:00 PM UTC

go has excessive verbosity, poor error handling, rough edges for package/dependency management, and forces you to use interface for too many things.

it’s not a bad language, but i would not choose it for a new project or base my company around it

Re: Why you should use Go

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Post by perryizgr8 » Wed, Oct 23, 2024, 7:18 PM UTC

_mlbt wrote: post #5

What do people use for authentication in Go web applications? To me that’s the big missing piece. Just about everything else is in the standard library.

I wrote my own. I know you're not supposed to do it, but I copied the django implementation as best I could so its probably OK. It's not much work actually.

Re: Why you should use Go

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Post by groone » Wed, Oct 23, 2024, 7:18 PM UTC

All of these points apply to modern dotnet as well

Re: Why you should use Go

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Post by lormayna » Wed, Oct 23, 2024, 7:31 PM UTC

_mlbt wrote: post #5

What do people use for authentication in Go web applications? To me that’s the big missing piece. Just about everything else is in the standard library.

Exactly, I am looking for a suitable authentication library in go since long time, but I cannot finding anything. Things like authboss are not really usable at all.

Re: Why you should use Go

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Post by grouchypumpkin » Wed, Oct 23, 2024, 7:32 PM UTC

foolfoolz wrote: post #6

go has excessive verbosity, poor error handling, rough edges for package/dependency management, and forces you to use interface for too many things. it’s not a bad language, but i would not choose it for a new project or base my company around it

I'm really curious, which language is better than Go in those regards?

Because I find Go is better than Javascript/Typescript, Java, Python, C++, C# on all of those.