Re:Go success stories from around the web
by f2f on Saturday October 01, 2016 @06:56PM
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> However, I know that Dropbox is one of the biggest Go users and it isn't in this success stories list. Anyone knows more about it?
they still use go for a lot of things, rust for a niche, which is why i made the other comment in this thread: we need to see more rust success stories (and nim, and elixir, and julia, and R, et cetera) because we need to be able to evaluate the best tool for a particular task. at this point everybody worth their salt in programming is a polyglot. "oh yah, i write everything in Go [but my html templates are all javascript]".
they still use go for a lot of things, rust for a niche, which is why i made the other comment in this thread: we need to see more rust success stories (and nim, and elixir, and julia, and R, et cetera) because we need to be able to evaluate the best tool for a particular task. at this point everybody worth their salt in programming is a polyglot. "oh yah, i write everything in Go [but my html templates are all javascript]".
anyway, here's dropbox on go:
https://twitter.com/jamwt/status/629727590782099456