Re:Down the Golang Nil Rabbit Hole
by sangnoir on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @06:02PM
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> I can't help to wonder, would it be so successful if it weren't for all the Google-hype and the push because of kubernetes?
Yes - Go would have been successful without the hype. There is a lot of underlying thoughtfulness to the design and language ergonomics when it comes to working in teams. Go lets you write simple code in a simple way - and that's the bulk of the code I read and write. The more hairy bits can be a bit unwieldy in Go, but it's still serviceable.
As a recovering Perl programmer, Go has an anti-TIMTOWTDI philosophy, and I love it. It absolutely demolishes a lot of bike-shedding: I bet gofmt alone has saved humanity millions of work-hours. For any system that requires a modicum of maintenance in a team setting, Go edges out most other languages: Go code is darn readable. For writing once-off/one and done systems, Go loses its biggest advantage.
Yes - Go would have been successful without the hype. There is a lot of underlying thoughtfulness to the design and language ergonomics when it comes to working in teams. Go lets you write simple code in a simple way - and that's the bulk of the code I read and write. The more hairy bits can be a bit unwieldy in Go, but it's still serviceable.
As a recovering Perl programmer, Go has an anti-TIMTOWTDI philosophy, and I love it. It absolutely demolishes a lot of bike-shedding: I bet gofmt alone has saved humanity millions of work-hours. For any system that requires a modicum of maintenance in a team setting, Go edges out most other languages: Go code is darn readable. For writing once-off/one and done systems, Go loses its biggest advantage.