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Re:The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Dynamic Typing for Prac... by rjbrock on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @05:49PM (#10934713)
Well there are a few reasons that I decided to pick up go rather than something like kotlin.

1. No jvm needed. This may not be a benefit if you need to access java libraries, i just like that you can compile a binary. 2. Great concurrency support 3. Seems to be more popular. This may sound like a poor reason to choose a language, but if its more popular there would be better documentation, libraries, ide support, etc

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Re:The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Dynamic Typing for Prac... by mike_hearn on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @04:49AM (#10936959)
That's usually a good heuristic. But Kotlin has better IDEs, tools, debuggers, profilers etc than Go. Partly because it's made by a developer tools company (they make many of the top IDEs), and partly because it can leverage all the tools made for Java.

WRT not needing a JVM, I don't perceive much advantage to avoiding one unless you need small downloads i.e. desktop apps. But Go isn't suitable for that use case really anyway.

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