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Why people in Google hate Go?

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Re: Why people in Google hate Go?

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rapsey wrote: post #136
usrbinbash wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The higher cost in developer time is a myth. And yet, Go is a huge success in the industry, and one of the main reasons often given for chosing Go over a competing language, is how easy it is to get things started, how easy it makes the onboarding process, and how accessible and maintainable the code is. > the type checking seriously helps you out when you are changing existing code If you have Algebraic Datatypes…

> And yet, Go is a huge success in the industry Success of a technology is more often than not dependent on who is behind it. Anything by google will likely see a lot of uptake. Every language has a story. Some of it is bull some not. Best to try and be objective and not drink every drop of the koolaid.

> Anything by google will likely see a lot of uptake

Disagree.

https://www.failory.com/blog/google-failed-products

Re: Why people in Google hate Go?

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Post by usrbinbash »

biorach wrote: post #133
usrbinbash wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The higher cost in developer time is a myth. And yet, Go is a huge success in the industry, and one of the main reasons often given for chosing Go over a competing language, is how easy it is to get things started, how easy it makes the onboarding process, and how accessible and maintainable the code is. > the type checking seriously helps you out when you are changing existing code If you have Algebraic Datatypes…

You're a zealot and your comment is a polemic, not any kind of reasoned discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of one language as against another.

This isn't a discussion about the advantages or disadvantages of languages.

This is a discussion about whether Go "misses" things, or "lacks" things, or if it's designed to not have these things, and if there is a reason why that is.

I have demonstrated, and provided arguments, for why the latter is the case. Aka. the exact opposite of "polemic".

Re: Why people in Google hate Go?

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Post by gniv »

altun wrote: post #127
gniv wrote: post #55

> When you search "golang" on google for a long time, the question "Why people hate Go?" comes up at the top. What does this mean? Where do you see this? Also, I don't believe that question comes up verbatim, since it's not grammatically correct.

Previously, golang sub reddit came to the top in golang searches. The first title on the subreddit was "Why people hate Go?" was the title. Now go.dev comes first and reddit is below without title. When you search reddit golang, the title continues to come first.

I see. Reddit was the key word.

Re: Why people in Google hate Go?

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Post by SureshG »

boxmein wrote: post #24

Go is an extremely productive language in our experience (large majority of the back-end is in Go). Go excels in tooling and code sharing, and onboarding developers with Go is efficient. It also has an extremely small runtime footprint, reducing ecological footprint and server costs :) An average JVM needs 500+ MB of RAM, whereas our average Go microservice hovers around 25 MB. Last but not least, it is not tied to t…

>An average JVM needs 500+ MB of RAM

We are running small services with heap size under 100 MBs and is absolutely possible with new JVM versions. If you want ever smaller without JIT, native image is also an option. Moreover in most scenarios, JVM provide better peak performance. So here is a tradeoff

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