Ten Years of “Go: The Good, the Bad, and the Meh

Re:Ten Years of “Go: The Good, the Bad, and the Meh by Tainnor on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @05:41PM (#36779470)

What do you mean by "Go has succeeded"? It has found its niche, yes, but so have those HM languages (maybe the Go niche is a bit bigger), and a bunch of other languages that people also like to hate.

Meanwhile, most code is still written in languages like Java, C and PHP.

That's no value judgement or anything, I don't think Java is an amazing language (neither do I think it's a terrible one), but it's not like Go has revolutionised anything. It's just become a new option among many.

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Re:Ten Years of “Go: The Good, the Bad, and the Meh by EspressoGPT on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @04:49AM (#36783622)

The fact that you mention Go, an 11-year-old language, alongside a 27-year-old, a 51-year-old and a 28-year-old language proves that it has succeeded.

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Re:Ten Years of “Go: The Good, the Bad, and the Meh by Tainnor on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @12:41PM (#36789316)

Then so has Ruby, Haskell, Erlang, and a bunch of other languages that espouse virtues completely contrary to Go. So I'm not sure what your point is?

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