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Re:Building Web Apps in Go by ihsw on Sunday March 27, 2016 @10:54PM (#11372466)
Some people think Java is icky and other people think the JVM brings too much baggage for their comfort.

Warranted or not, it usually fills the space where fast microservices are necessary.

Personally I think Go's closest competitor is Scala.

Coming from Python, Ruby, and TypeScript -- Go is a fair bit more verbose, and Java takes that a step further. So Go is a nice go-between from scripted environments to compiled.

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Re:Building Web Apps in Go by jpliska on Monday March 28, 2016 @01:42AM (#11372905)
Have you seen kotlin? Its a cross between java, python and scala for the JVM (and JS - with wrinkles)
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Re:Building Web Apps in Go by xaduha on Monday March 28, 2016 @03:45AM (#11373156)
Everyone should seriously consider using Kotlin, it's here to stay.
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Re:Building Web Apps in Go by minionslave on Monday March 28, 2016 @10:42AM (#11374505)
The only thing I hate it the extra symbols. How to they justify using : val companyName: String = "JetBrains". Instead of string companyName = "Jetbrains" ?
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