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Re:Diving into Go by building a CLI application by mpfundstein on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @04:12AM (#23320649)
go is great for long running programs. in fact a large portion of the modern cloudstack is written in it. think of k8s, docker, nomad, etcd...

of course one needs to understand how go routines work in order to use them correctly, but thats probably true for everything, right?

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Re:Diving into Go by building a CLI application by apta on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @10:14PM (#23332681)
> go is great for long running programs

golang's gc is non-compacting. I wouldn't be surprised if there are cases where fragmentation becomes too much for a golang service to continue behaving properly. This becomes more likely in long running services.

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