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Re:The Problem with Go by erik_seaberg on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @03:22PM (#33441544)
Go is popular for the same reason Scala is not. You’re encouraged to crank out a lot of ugly repetitive code because the language is so minimal you aren’t expected to learn a cleaner built-in solution (because there isn’t one).

Go’s memory footprint is also quite a bit better than Java, at least until value types land. .NET doesn’t seem to have a lot of traction; I’ve been meaning to reevaluate its improved Linux story but haven’t yet.

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Re:The Problem with Go by st3fan on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @03:33PM (#33441689)
You can build wonderful abstractions in Go. Now even more so with generics being part of the language. I don't know where this is 'encouraged' but the language itself cannot do that - only engineering teams or leaders can.
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Re:The Problem with Go by kcartlidge on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @05:00PM (#33442845)
> .NET doesn’t seem to have a lot of traction

I feel like I'm shilling for C# in this thread (a handful of replies so far) so apologies, but I'm genuinely not being partisan here as I'm a dev using both Go and C# daily.

However if you think .NET doesn't have traction I can only assume you are excluding virtually the entire enterprise in favour of start-ups and pure-tech firms. For the second group you may be right. For the first group Go is (relatively speaking) absolutely nowhere in comparison to .NET, which has for years had the enterprise virtually sewn up alongside Java.

Outside of enterprise I agree you're probably right, which is a shame as it is approximately the equal of Go in most areas, worse in some and better in others.

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Re:The Problem with Go by pjmlp on Thursday November 03, 2022 @04:55AM (#33448554)
On my enterprise space, .NET has indeed not much traction outside Windows. even with .NET Core as many key products are yet to be UNIX friendly.

However when we go for UNIX solutions, Java is the alternative, Go is not even part of the picture unless we are talking about devops tooling (which nowadays is becoming trendy to rewrite in Rust anyway).

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