How to Escape from {{ #PROGRAMMING_LANGUAGE }}

Re:How to Escape from {{ #PROGRAMMING_LANGUAGE }} by CHsurfer on Monday March 11, 2013 @09:34AM (#5356531)

Wondering if GO would be considered a good candidate in the 'exotic' category.

  -People seem to enjoy programming with it
  -Makes somethings very easy (concurrency)
  -Standardized formatting, makes everyone else's code easier to read or vice-verse.

Just not sure if people are doing 'work' yet or still mostly playing with it.

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Re:How to Escape from {{ #PROGRAMMING_LANGUAGE }} by lclarkmichalek on Monday March 11, 2013 @10:31AM (#5356913)

From what I've seen, people spend more time mentioning it on every single PL related post on HN than either working or playing with it ;)

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Re:How to Escape from {{ #PROGRAMMING_LANGUAGE }} by voidlogic on Monday March 11, 2013 @03:41PM (#5359125)

How do you know this is the case, that is people who talk about Go a lot do not use it? I often talk about Go on HN, I also use Go for my work and personal projects and write Go 10+ hours a day... Many of the people I see talk about Go on HN are active on github and golang-nuts... I know they are writing Go.

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Re:How to Escape from {{ #PROGRAMMING_LANGUAGE }} by carbocation on Monday March 11, 2013 @09:51AM (#5356630)

I've been writing minor tools in it for work and it's been a pleasure (the golang version of one of these tools offered an immediate 8x speedup on an hours-long task, compared to prior PHP versions, with minimal additional thought). I have yet to organize a large project around it, however.

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Re:How to Escape from {{ #PROGRAMMING_LANGUAGE }} by klibertp on Monday March 11, 2013 @09:42AM (#5356588)

That's an interesting question - which 'exotic' languages have the highest probability of becoming 'the new hot thing' at one point and when.

Watching the evolution of programming languages and programming jobs for the last two decades I still have no idea how to predict this; I can only believe in my intuition and bet.

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Re:How to Escape from {{ #PROGRAMMING_LANGUAGE }} by Tichy on Monday March 11, 2013 @11:33AM (#5357342)

Pretty sure it is a good bet. Just my opinion. It's endorsed by the most important internet company, and people I know and respect told me they like it.

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Re:How to Escape from {{ #PROGRAMMING_LANGUAGE }} by gnur on Monday March 11, 2013 @10:07AM (#5356740)

What really made me love go is that when your code compiles, it probably (90%+) does what you wanted it to do.

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Re:How to Escape from {{ #PROGRAMMING_LANGUAGE }} by zozu on Monday March 11, 2013 @09:59AM (#5356679)

I too am very curious about GO. I might pick it up sooner or later.

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