Re:Meta's new LLM-based test generator is a sneak peek to th...
by randomdata on Monday February 26, 2024 @03:18PM
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> Go is positioned as the DSL for microservices.
Do you mean Goa? Indeed, it is not a language fit for what we're talking about. It only allows description of services, not the implementation. For that you have to fall back to Go, which completely misses the whole reason for using a DSL.
> "one of your upstream calls might fail and then you return an error to your caller" is not that interesting.
Sure, and which is why you wouldn't use Go here. There is absolutely nothing in Go that is geared towards abstracting those kinds of things away. And you can't tell me that Goa tempts you. It is not a good DSL.
Do you mean Goa? Indeed, it is not a language fit for what we're talking about. It only allows description of services, not the implementation. For that you have to fall back to Go, which completely misses the whole reason for using a DSL.
> "one of your upstream calls might fail and then you return an error to your caller" is not that interesting.
Sure, and which is why you wouldn't use Go here. There is absolutely nothing in Go that is geared towards abstracting those kinds of things away. And you can't tell me that Goa tempts you. It is not a good DSL.