Re:Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust
by _bxg1 on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @02:19PM
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Right; Go is purpose-built for writing web services, and web services tend to be pretty tolerant of (small) latency spikes because virtually anyone who's calling one is already expecting at least some latency
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Re:Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust
by latch on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @09:04PM
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> Go is purpose-built for writing web services
Is this true? Go was built specifically for C++ developers, which, even when Go was first release, was a pretty unpopular language for writing web services (though maybe not at Google?). That a non-trivial number of Ruby/Python/Node developers switched was unexpected. (1)
https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2012/06/less-is-exponenti...
Re:Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust
by blondin on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @09:44PM
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your quote is just corroborating what the reply is saying. go was written for web services which were written in c++ at google.
Re:Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust
by latch on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @01:34AM
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The linked article doesn't say anything about web services. Just C++. I believe Rob Pike was working on GFS and log management, and Go was always initially pitched at system programming (which is not web services).
> Our target community was ourselves, of course, and the broader systems-programming community inside Google. (1)