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Why you PHP guys should learn Golang

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Re: Why you PHP guys should learn Golang

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Where can I get managed Golang hosting for $4.95 a month?

You can get managed Go hosting for $0 a month: https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/go/overview

I love Go, so it's a shame I can't trust its initial creator, Google, for hosting. Too many stories about accounts unilaterally yanked and prices jacked up 3X+ overnight.

Re: Why you PHP guys should learn Golang

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Great idea! Now how drunk do I need to get Systems so they will actually install Go on our servers? Because I'm sure that they would just love giving several thousand students, staff, and faculty the ability to run arbitrary machine code!

If you can't let arbitrary machine code run on your system, you are "doing it wrong." *nix was designed as multi-tenant from the get-go. also, they would not need to install Go on the servers, as the binaries are completely self-contained.

Re: Why you PHP guys should learn Golang

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Great idea! Now how drunk do I need to get Systems so they will actually install Go on our servers? Because I'm sure that they would just love giving several thousand students, staff, and faculty the ability to run arbitrary machine code!

I'm pretty sure you can write rm -rf / in PHP just as easily as Go.

Also does your university not provide a C compiler to their students? I'd be shocked of that were the case.

Re: Why you PHP guys should learn Golang

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It doesn't seem to me that there is a whole lot of overlap between the virtues or sweet spot of PHP and those of Go. Go is not a particularly hard language for the level it's designed at (though I'm not sure that remembering keywords is really a primary usability concern for any language)... but if you are just trying to slap together a web app and feel intimidated by deploy details and want to use cheap shared hosti…

Look at lowendbox.com and say that hosting Go is inconvenient again. Heroku and GAE are supporting Go too.
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