Thirteen Years of Go

Re:Thirteen Years of Go by Xeoncross on Friday November 11, 2022 @01:50PM (#33564976)

The compile times and the fact it takes 10x the memory for a lot of services is certainly something I would like to see addressed. Not to mention that Java for things like serverless has painfully slow startup times.

Java runs nice and quick when it's ready, but it's slow to get there and quite a memory hog.

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Re:Thirteen Years of Go by kaba0 on Friday November 11, 2022 @02:32PM (#33565600)

Compile times? Besides gradle’s startup time, java compiles just as fast as go imo. Go barely does any optimization, but javac does even less - so I don’t really see it a problem on actually similarly sized projects.

Memory usage is a tradeoff — a good GC works best with a bit more overhead.

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Re:Thirteen Years of Go by erik_seaberg on Friday November 11, 2022 @03:14PM (#33566188)

I want the compiler doing as much work as it possibly can. If they can somehow make the compiler faster, I guess that’s nice, but I don’t want to be saddled with a language that’s been compromised to move work from the computer back into 0.0001 MHz human brains.

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