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Re:Why Go? by dom96 on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @06:14PM (#19323977)
Needs a "2016" in the title.

I've mostly skimmed this article but based on what I'm seeing it's more of the same, "Concurrency", "Simplicity", "Simple deployment" etc.

I would really like to learn something else about Go now, when is Python a better choice? When is Rust a better choice? What are the negatives of using Go?

Re:Why Go? by zzzcpan on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @06:29PM (#19324066)
Concurrency bugs in Go study is a good place to start on the last one: https://songlh.github.io/paper/go-study.pdf
Re:Why Go? by apta on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @08:21PM (#19324781)
Re:Why Go? by stunt on Thursday March 07, 2019 @05:26AM (#19326953)
> https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/an33mo/aspnet_...

There are plenty of articles comparing Rust and Go. Easy to find.

When it comes to Go itself, You have both those pros listed in this article and repeated everywhere, and these cons listed in Reddit and again repeated everywhere. In my opinion cons will weight more and becomes annoying when you are working on a large projects/code-base, Otherwise for smaller projects you don't notice them much and performance and goroutines are the main reasons for MOST not ALL projects choosing Go over Python or Ruby in that scale.

Re:Why Go? by apta on Thursday March 07, 2019 @10:30AM (#19328784)
I find it ironic that golang was supposedly created for "large scale" programming, but nothing really in the language supports that notion (no dependency management, import system sucks, verbose error handling, and so on). I just see the claim without anything to back it up.
Re:Why Go? by dragonwriter on Thursday March 07, 2019 @10:39AM (#19328867)
I'm pretty sure “large scale” was meant specifically in the sense of a single shop with a gigantic code base in a monorepo.

Or, more directly, it means “Google”.

Re:Why Go? by apta on Thursday March 07, 2019 @01:38PM (#19330763)
Yes, that's what I meant, and it does a bad job at it (the examples I gave). Java/C#/Kotlin/etc. are strictly superior when it comes to managing large code bases.

I think what they had in mind is just quick compilation times, even at the expense of convenience, safety, terseness, etc.

Re:Why Go? by lerax on Thursday March 07, 2019 @05:03AM (#19326845)
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