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Go 1.6 is Released

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Re: Go 1.6 is Released

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Post by sinatra »

Go checks a lot of boxes for my ideal language for developing web services: Static type, C derived, has garbage collection, generates a single binary, supports concurrency very well, is opinionated, is small/simple, its community prefers to just use standard lib for most work, etc. Yes, Generics is an issue and so is debugging. But, overall, I can't think of many other options that check so many boxes.

EDIT: I must highlight the point about checking lot of boxes. In many discussions about features of programming languages, we get responses like, "language Y does that too. Why not choose that language?" Well, because we don't pick languages for one specific feature. We pick them for the combination of features.

Re: Go 1.6 is Released

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Post by bigdubs »

sinatra wrote: post #5

Go checks a lot of boxes for my ideal language for developing web services: Static type, C derived, has garbage collection, generates a single binary, supports concurrency very well, is opinionated, is small/simple, its community prefers to just use standard lib for most work, etc. Yes, Generics is an issue and so is debugging. But, overall, I can't think of many other options that check so many boxes. EDIT: I must h…

The more I dig into type coercion and interfaces the less I miss generics. Still not 100% there, but for day to day the things I used to use generics for have been replaced by alternates. I still wish I never had to write `interface{}` though.

Debugging absolutely needs work though.

Re: Go 1.6 is Released

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Post by pklausler »

sinatra wrote: post #5

Go checks a lot of boxes for my ideal language for developing web services: Static type, C derived, has garbage collection, generates a single binary, supports concurrency very well, is opinionated, is small/simple, its community prefers to just use standard lib for most work, etc. Yes, Generics is an issue and so is debugging. But, overall, I can't think of many other options that check so many boxes. EDIT: I must h…

"is opinionated"? What does that mean in the context of a computer programming language?

Re: Go 1.6 is Released

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Post by meddlepal »

sinatra wrote: post #5

Go checks a lot of boxes for my ideal language for developing web services: Static type, C derived, has garbage collection, generates a single binary, supports concurrency very well, is opinionated, is small/simple, its community prefers to just use standard lib for most work, etc. Yes, Generics is an issue and so is debugging. But, overall, I can't think of many other options that check so many boxes. EDIT: I must h…

Java SE and a fat jar... checks all the boxes and has generics and superior tooling.

I still don't get the Go love.

Re: Go 1.6 is Released

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Post by Cyph0n »

I can't wait to see what's new in 1.6! I really had a pleasure working with Go for my senior project last year. If I need to write either a server (HTTP or TCP/UDP), or a client application that must be easy to build and distribute, Go is my first choice.

What Go is lacking at this moment in my opinion is:

1) A comprehensive and mature web framework. Play w/ Scala is my go-to choice now, with Django a very close second.

2) A decent cross-platform GUI toolkit; heck, I'd settle with Qt and/or .NET bindings for Go. The power of Go is statically linked binaries, and I think the area of desktop applications will be easy to target if a good solution emerges.

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