Because It's Not Fun Enough: why languages fail

Re:Because It's Not Fun Enough: why languages fail by giancarlostoro on Monday August 10, 2026 @12:38PM (#49246112)

I mixed up when Go had its first release for windows and 1.0 but that somehow means I wasn't around for that? Thanks for knowing about my life more than I do somehow? My memory is not what it used to be but that doesn't invalidate my personal experiences in 2009.

I started college in 2011 and I was telling the professors about it before it was popular, Vitess was in 2010, used in production by YouTube. JavaScript predates NodeJS even so.

I did use Linux in 2009 so I could be misremembering when it was ported, after all this was over a decade and some change ago.

Edit:

https://go.dev/blog/1year

My overall argument still stands, in production at YouTube by 2010, by 2013 we already had Docker in the works, when you say it "just came out" but many people were eyeballing Go and waiting for it to be fully on Windows.

So 2010 they were talking about the Windows port, guess I blended the years a bit, everything before my college years is all smashed together for me.

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Re:Because It's Not Fun Enough: why languages fail by purplemoonx on Monday August 10, 2026 @12:48PM (#49246256)

In 2010 I was doing Flash/AS3 (professionally) and Wordpress sites, but yeah, maybe.

I don't doubt it has a searchable history back to 2010.

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Re:Because It's Not Fun Enough: why languages fail by giancarlostoro on Monday August 10, 2026 @12:53PM (#49246360)

Anyway, my memory is pretty bad, the early 2010s are a blurb and sometimes I mix up 2009 with the early 2010s. I love JavaScript and hate it, because I know how quirky it is and can be, I'm glad something like Go and Node came along, we were all stuck with Java or C# (which arguably became a lot better in recent years). Now we've got many more options.

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