Live data from Hacker News

Go: Ten years and climbing

commandcenter.blogspot.com

11–20 of 193 posts

Re: Go: Ten years and climbing

#11
post #9
post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At work we have recently started using Go. When I told one of my developer friends that I was doing some Go projects, he was confused and thought I meant "Pokemon Go". So yeah, you might have a point, sadly.

a developer who hasn’t heard of Go must live under some special kind of rock

Hopefully it's a very good kind of rock where there are no bad languages like Go.

Re: Go: Ten years and climbing

#13
post #8

I've been using Go on the side since mid-late 2013, so not nearly as long as some here, but I was heavily impressed by both Goroutines and channels as ideas, and by the net/http library. The general portability and simplicity of the language has made it nice for side-project work. I've since used go to write a blog engine, several APIs for school projects, and have been working on a scripting language (pisc.junglecod…

> but I was heavily impressed by both Goroutines and channels as ideas

You know they didn't invent this right?

Re: Go: Ten years and climbing

#15
post #8

I've been using Go on the side since mid-late 2013, so not nearly as long as some here, but I was heavily impressed by both Goroutines and channels as ideas, and by the net/http library. The general portability and simplicity of the language has made it nice for side-project work. I've since used go to write a blog engine, several APIs for school projects, and have been working on a scripting language (pisc.junglecod…

> but I was heavily impressed by both Goroutines and channels as ideas You know they didn't invent this right?

Does that matter? Languages are born of other languages all the time. What matters are the many reasons why languages like Go flourish and what makes them impactful.

Re: Go: Ten years and climbing

#18
Maybe I'm spoiled, but I've had a hard time dipping my toes into Go due to the lack of batteries included frameworks (like Rails or Laravel). Can anyone recommend some resources to give it another shot?

Re: Go: Ten years and climbing

#20
One of Larry Wall's slogans for Perl is "Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible." In its own way, that's what has made Go the kind of success that Perl once was.

Perl was the glue language of the web and Go is the production language of the cloud.

I'm actually a bit scared to imagine a world in which Go was not created, given how much success I've personally had with it.

Thanks to the entire Go team.

Post reply on HN