Re:One Year After Switching from Java to Go: Our Experiences
by gf000 on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @06:03AM
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I'm fairly sure that most of these frameworks are not direct imitations of what Java did, and there was a back-and-fort co-evolution where standard CRUD web applications can be written in a very very productive way (for the small price of learning a framework).
Sure, reinventing the wheel is fun, but if I can finish a whole project while the equivalent go code can finally return "Hello world", then I'm not sure it's a worthwhile tradeoff. Java is not anemic when it comes to its standard library, people moved to frameworks because a good deal of CRUD apps have to solve some of the same problems. Don't forget, the only silver bullet is reusing existing code.
Sure, reinventing the wheel is fun, but if I can finish a whole project while the equivalent go code can finally return "Hello world", then I'm not sure it's a worthwhile tradeoff. Java is not anemic when it comes to its standard library, people moved to frameworks because a good deal of CRUD apps have to solve some of the same problems. Don't forget, the only silver bullet is reusing existing code.