Half a million lines of Go

Re:Half a million lines of Go by tptacek on Sunday May 16, 2021 @08:51PM (#27178836)

"Maybe just services" concedes the whole point. Yes, Go is not a good language to build a web browser in (and that's an important application domain, and we all suffer from not having a popular portable language to do that in; it's why we all run goofy Electron apps on our desktops now). But the space of all possible serverside apps is huge, and encompasses a pretty big chunk of what people actually build professionally.

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Re:Half a million lines of Go by coryrc on Sunday May 16, 2021 @09:26PM (#27179114)

There's so much more than untrusted-client<->server apps even if we find ourselves in that local maxima. Or maybe it really is the One True Way, but I think more of appliances with firmware, the Linux kernel, the apps on my phone, mainframes, 3d games, FPGAs, PL research, supercomputing... there's so many exciting applications for software! And I don't feel Go is a good match for most of it and will just cause people frustration to try.

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Re:Half a million lines of Go by tptacek on Sunday May 16, 2021 @09:38PM (#27179189)

Take a look at gvisor and come back and tell me how limiting Go is, I guess.

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Re:Half a million lines of Go by coryrc on Sunday May 16, 2021 @09:53PM (#27179281)

You're not wrong, you shouldn't be downvoted.

This is too close to my work life that I don't wish to comment on this project. EDIT: but it is a fantastic accomplishment

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