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What are some cases where I would choose to write a server in Go instead of in Erlang?
When your server has to do some computations to return results. Erlang is bad at that.
What are some cases where I would choose to write a server in Go instead of in Erlang?
When your server has to do some computations to return results. Erlang is bad at that.
I love Go. It has become the default Go-To (pun intended) language for me for almost anything that needs to be small and portable. However, I don't see myself writing a full server with it, I would still prefer a dynamic language like Ruby/Python for that and use Go for micro-services CLIs and the rest. For example: Our main application is Rails, it communicates with SOLR as the search index, in between the applicati…
It doesn't make Go a bad language,it has a some good percs, it's just frustrating that its authors conflated simplicity with rigidity. Also I hate when languages have hidden APIs, i.e. things the language can do that the programmer can't. Go is full of these (for instance append which is a parametric function since it knows the proper return type no matter what type of slice you pass it, but you can't write your own? ).
It's good think that it requires very little investment to get started, but it becomes highly frustrating when one stumbles on its limitations.
I'd love to see Nim on this diagram: https://talks.golang.org/2016/applicative.slide#13 - it could be close to the top right corner.
Would love to play around with this
All of the server backends at my company are written in Go. This was a result of me writing a couple servers in Python a few years back, ending up with lots of problems related to hanging connections, timeouts, etc. I tried a couple different server libraries on Python but they all seemed to struggle with even tiny loads. Not sure what was up with that, but ultimately I gave Go a swing, having heard that it was good…
Go is great for actor based systems where you model things using channels and goroutines for what they stand conceptually - not when you use it to simulate Task.WhenAll/Promise.all with a timeout.
I think _that's_ what they should be selling - that your server's architecture should typically be different.
I love Go. It has become the default Go-To (pun intended) language for me for almost anything that needs to be small and portable. However, I don't see myself writing a full server with it, I would still prefer a dynamic language like Ruby/Python for that and use Go for micro-services CLIs and the rest. For example: Our main application is Rails, it communicates with SOLR as the search index, in between the applicati…
Given the low API limits on most services, what was the reason you went with Go for those integrations as opposed to ruby / rails?
In this blog post the previous solution is presented using Nginx, now it's Golang similar to Templar (mentioned in the post).
All of the server backends at my company are written in Go. This was a result of me writing a couple servers in Python a few years back, ending up with lots of problems related to hanging connections, timeouts, etc. I tried a couple different server libraries on Python but they all seemed to struggle with even tiny loads. Not sure what was up with that, but ultimately I gave Go a swing, having heard that it was good…