Go's Sweet 16
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Go's Sweet 16
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#210 week onboarding program we use here for go backend devs: https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/1eiea6q/10_week_pla...
go is amazing. switches from python to go 7 years ago. It's the reason our startup did well
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#3I know they say that your programming language isn't the bottleneck, but I remember sitting there being frustrated as a young dev that I couldn't parse faster in the languages I was using when I learned about Go.
It took a few more years before I actually got around to learning it and I have to say I've never picked up a language so quickly. (Which makes sense, it's got the smallest language spec of any of them)
I'm sure there are plenty of reasons this is wrong, but it feels like Go gets me 80% of the way to Rust with 20% of the effort.
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#4I like Go. Coming from Python, I appreciate having most things be explicit in nature vs. magical, and having concurrency not feel like a bolted on nightmare.
Writing microservices at $DAYJOB feels far easier and less guess-work, even if it requires more upfront code, because it’s clear what each piece does and why.
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#5Glad to see that the bowling development team is focusing on deterministic tooling like language server protocol in gopls and using static analysis for automatically restoring code with go fix.
Recently I made the same assertions as to Go's advantage for LLM/AI orchestration.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45895897
It would not surprise me that Google (being the massive services company that it is) would have sent an internal memo instructing teams not to use the Python tool chain to produce production agents or tooling and use Golang.
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#6Go would probably be my favorite language if it just had a few more features around functional programming. Specifically around immutability and nullness, and maybe exhaustive switch statements. Then it just might be perfect.
At work we use Uber’s NillAway, so that helps bit. https://github.com/uber-go/nilaway Though actually having the type system handle it would be nicer.
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#7I like Go. Coming from Python, I appreciate having most things be explicit in nature vs. magical, and having concurrency not feel like a bolted on nightmare. Writing microservices at $DAYJOB feels far easier and less guess-work, even if it requires more upfront code, because it’s clear what each piece does and why.
I've finally gotten around to learning Go this year and I'm having a pretty similar experience.
It really feels like a simpler language and ecosystem compared to Python. On top of that, it performs much better!
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#8I was very skeptical of Go when I started learning it, but it quickly became my favourite language. I like how simple but powerful it is.
If I had a magic wand, the only things I would add is better nulability checks, add stack traces by default for errors, and exhaustive checks for sum types. Other than that, it does everything I want.
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#9I know they say that your programming language isn't the bottleneck, but I remember sitting there being frustrated as a young dev that I couldn't parse faster in the languages I was using when I learned about Go. It took a few more years before I actually got around to learning it and I have to say I've never picked up a language so quickly. (Which makes sense, it's got the smallest language spec of any of them) I'm…
> I'm sure there are plenty of reasons this is wrong, but it feels like Go gets me 80% of the way to Rust with 20% of the effort.
I don't see it. Can you say what 80% you feel like you're getting?
The type system doesn't feel anything alike, I guess the syntax is alike in the sense that Go is a semi-colon language and Rust though actually basically an ML deliberately dresses as a semi-colon language but otherwise not really. They're both relatively modern, so you get decent tooling out of the box.
But this feels a bit like if somebody told me that this new pizza restaurant does a cheese pizza that's 80% similar to the Duck Ho Fun from that little place near the extremely tacky student bar. Duck Ho Fun doesn't have nothing in common with cheese pizza, they're both best (in my opinion) if cooked very quickly with high heat - but there's not a lot of commonality.
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#10I was very skeptical of Go when I started learning it, but it quickly became my favourite language. I like how simple but powerful it is. If I had a magic wand, the only things I would add is better nulability checks, add stack traces by default for errors, and exhaustive checks for sum types. Other than that, it does everything I want.
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