Fourteen Years of Go

Re:Fourteen Years of Go by citrin_ru on Saturday November 11, 2023 @06:50AM (#38229494)

My impression that Rust nowadays gets more attention/upvotes than Go. But Go is still very fashionable compare to C/C++/Perl/PHP.

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Re:Fourteen Years of Go by zozbot234 on Saturday November 11, 2023 @06:53AM (#38229519)

It's also very fashionable compared to other garbage-collected languages, which is arguably a more sensible comparison. Though one could argue that ReasonML (an Ocaml frontend with vaguely Go-ish syntax) has the better overall design.

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Re:Fourteen Years of Go by scns on Saturday November 11, 2023 @08:26AM (#38230104)

> ReasonML (an Ocaml frontend with vaguely Go-ish syntax)

Sorry to be a pedant, but ReasonML was developed to make OCaml accessible to developers with JavaScript experience.

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Re:Fourteen Years of Go by iLoveOncall on Saturday November 11, 2023 @06:50AM (#38229497)

I think it has become out of fashion everywhere to be fair.

Not in the sense that it's a bad language, but just that it's not used much anymore.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F0...

(Funnily enough, it still absolutely dwarfs Rust in Google Trends, which highlights how much HN, Reddit and such are echo-chambers)

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Re:Fourteen Years of Go by citrin_ru on Saturday November 11, 2023 @07:23AM (#38229713)

It's not only about echo-chambers. Rust is an emerging language, it's enthusiasts feel compelled to promote it to help it grow faster. Go is already well established and it's users likely feel that this language will be fine without their advocacy and more likely to stay silent. Go generated much more excitement on HN when it was not yet widely used but was growing and promising.

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Re:Fourteen Years of Go by usrbinbash on Saturday November 11, 2023 @11:14AM (#38231560)

> it's enthusiasts feel compelled to promote it to help it grow faster.

I have no problem with language-fans promoting it and singing praise to it. I do the same with languages I happen to like.

What I do have a problem with, is evangelizing.

https://gist.github.com/graninas/22ab535d2913311e47a742c70f1...

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Re:Fourteen Years of Go by Thaxll on Saturday November 11, 2023 @07:28AM (#38229754)

Go is a wildly used language not sure what you mean by it's not used anyway, it's a growing and very popular language.

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Re:Fourteen Years of Go by xbmcuser on Saturday November 11, 2023 @07:59AM (#38229935)

If you look at github stats go is still growing I don't see how you think it is its not used anymore it is the only largly used language that is still growing.

https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2023/3

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Re:Fourteen Years of Go by d-z-m on Saturday November 11, 2023 @08:09AM (#38230005)

> Not in the sense that it's a bad language, but just that it's not used much anymore.

What are you talking about? Go is a popular language. Many of the successful software projects released in recent years are written in Go.

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Re:Fourteen Years of Go by acheong08 on Saturday November 11, 2023 @11:21PM (#38237272)

Google Trends is a terrible indicator.

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Re:Fourteen Years of Go by zmj on Saturday November 11, 2023 @07:30AM (#38229765)

Go has entered the "boring technology" phase, along with Java, .NET, etc. It's a safe, productive choice, with well understood upsides and downsides. There's not much to talk about... and that's ok!

"Choose Boring Technology": https://boringtechnology.club/

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Re:Fourteen Years of Go by cynicalsecurity on Saturday November 11, 2023 @10:29AM (#38231156)

Is .NET still around?

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Re:Fourteen Years of Go by davewritescode on Saturday November 11, 2023 @11:53AM (#38231968)

I believe it’s more widely used than Go

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