Re:First chapter of Kernighan and Donovan's new Go book [pdf]
by fiatmoney on Monday October 19, 2015 @01:55PM
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Situations where you want a modern, strongly-typed language with easy C bindings.
IO-heavy operations, especially where it's primarily IO bound but there is a decent computational aspect (eg, working with an embedded database or doing lots of flatfile munging).
I've found the place where Go crashes and burns is if you're trying to implement / use lots of sophisticated custom data structures. It really really wants you to use the builtins, and the lack of generics is irksome.
IO-heavy operations, especially where it's primarily IO bound but there is a decent computational aspect (eg, working with an embedded database or doing lots of flatfile munging).
I've found the place where Go crashes and burns is if you're trying to implement / use lots of sophisticated custom data structures. It really really wants you to use the builtins, and the lack of generics is irksome.