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Such a great language. If only it had a good GUI library...
Also there are ways to talk back and forth with Electron for front end.
Full disclosure, have not tried either but just looking around as I get into Go.
I do a lot of web dev so like idea of HTML/JS for front end. I know I know, Electron is awful but maybe less awful if it's light?
We switched from Python to Go over 2 years ago and it's been an amazing improvement in terms of performance as well as developer productivity for building high traffic endpoints.
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I agree. I would guess the "why" is that Rust is capable of everything that Golang is capable of, except more and better. Not to mention that Rust has a very supportive community to help each other.
I would disagree. Rust and Go occupy very different spaces. This is like saying "skip the car, take a rocket ship." Sure, Rust will go faster in some circumstances, but it's a hell of a commitment.
That's exactly what it is like saying. Sure, some people might not want a rocket ship. That's fine. But that is the logic behind "skip go, take rust".
Such a great language. If only it had a good GUI library...
I have made very good experiences with the GTK bindings for go ( https://github.com/gotk3/gotk3 ). As the GTK Api is C-Based, it fits conceptually very good to Go. Actually I consider the Go bindings even better than using GTK from C, as the thin object model GTK uses, translates well to Go structures, most functions become methods on those structures. And the Go garbage collector solves the memory handling of the GT…
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Vague statements like this contribute nothing to the conversation. Specially when they go against data https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2019/ > Go - The most promising programming language. Go started out with a share of 8% in 2017 and now it has reached 18%. In addition, the biggest number of developers (13%) chose Go as a language they would like to adopt or migrate to. And this https://research.hackerrank…
Not really defending the vague statements of the person you're replying to, but I'd take those surveys with a giant grain of salt. There's just too much selection bias at work. I for one struggle to imagine how any company could ever induce me to take one of these surveys, and I doubt I'm that special a snowflake. 49% of devs have used python in the last 12 months? And 50% java? Huh? Who are these people? Probably th…
On that matter you'll find plenty of Rust advocates referring to SO's survey stating it's the most loved language. They will however try to downplay surveys which report that Go's adoption is far superior and distancing.
With that said I find comparing Go and Rust an exercise in futility since the usecases rarely intersect.
This[0] is the best way I've seen to learn Golang. It's exactly what I needed to make things stick and make sense. 0: https://quii.gitbook.io/learn-go-with-tests/
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> You don't get simple methods like insert(index,item). This is by design, to lift the CPU and allocation costs to the foreground. You can argue that was a bad design decision, but it wasn't an oversight, as you imply in the OP.
So the AOT makes that more difficult I'm guessing? I think that go does heavy lto so shouldn't inlining at link time give the same opportunity for that? Java's escape analysis has always been dodgy to rely on. I've had some very simple code when I couldn't for the life of me figure out why the allocations weren't being hoisted. So I don't know if gos is better or worse. It most definitely was not an oversight, clearl…
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I agree. I would guess the "why" is that Rust is capable of everything that Golang is capable of, except more and better. Not to mention that Rust has a very supportive community to help each other.
After using Rust for about a year on the side, I get the feeling that it's not quite mature enough yet in some places. On the other hand, I also get the feeling that the development of the language itself has been measured and careful which could also be seen as a bit slow. On the other hand, I hear good things about Go across lots of people I work with although I've yet to sit down and give it a meaningful try. But…
Where can I download Go v2? Latest is tagged 1.13beta1
Go authors stated multiple times that there are no plans for a Go 2 at the moment. They rather improve the language in small increments breaking as least as possible.
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Vague statements like this contribute nothing to the conversation. Specially when they go against data https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2019/ > Go - The most promising programming language. Go started out with a share of 8% in 2017 and now it has reached 18%. In addition, the biggest number of developers (13%) chose Go as a language they would like to adopt or migrate to. And this https://research.hackerrank…
It's "vague", because it's a statement about the future. Unfortunately I don't have data from the future, but I do have a good intuition about the future trends ;)
It's intuition all the way down.
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The default mode is already `auto`, which checks if you're within GOPATH (if GOPATH is set) and defaults to mod if you're not.
don't know this, thanks! I also assume you no longer need set GO111MODULE=on anymore