How We Went from 30 Servers to 2: Go

Re:How We Went from 30 Servers to 2: Go by beatgammit on Tuesday March 12, 2013 @07:29PM (#5365725)

I agree that any serious programmer should be able to be productive in any language, but mastery of a style of programming takes time.

It's easy to move about in the same style of programming, but trying to move someone from enterprise-y OO (Java, C#) to functional (Haskell, Lisp) or even Go is a bit of a leap. Concepts often just don't cross over. A Go channel, for example, makes sense to an Erlang developer, but not a Java developer. Goroutines don't make sense to someone familiar with traditional threads.

There's a certain amount of rewiring that needs to be done. Looking for a "[language] programmer" is strange, but looking for someone proficient in the style of programming used makes sense to me.

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Re:How We Went from 30 Servers to 2: Go by seanmcdirmid on Tuesday March 12, 2013 @10:19PM (#5366395)

Even within languages, styles are not set in stone; e.g. are you the OO-style Scala programmer, or are you the FP-style Scala programmer?

Java has had channels for a while now at the library level, they just lack pretty syntax. But this just reinforces my point.

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