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Re:Go as an alternative to Node.js for very fast servers by samnardoni on Wednesday August 14, 2013 @08:42AM (#6211128)
For me, Go has the least "What the hell does this code do?" and "Why isn't this code working?" of any language I've ever used.

I'd say Go isn't an impressive programming language, but a very impressive software engineering language.

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Re:Go as an alternative to Node.js for very fast servers by bsg75 on Wednesday August 14, 2013 @11:10AM (#6211970)
> Go isn't an impressive programming language, but a very impressive software engineering language.

Curious, what is the distinction?

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Re:Go as an alternative to Node.js for very fast servers by coldtea on Wednesday August 14, 2013 @12:33PM (#6212482)
He means that Go will not impress programming language geeks and academic PL researchers with cool evolved syntax or cutting edge features, but is a fine language for actually building software.

In the same sense that a language that "in theory" has tons of cool stuff might be unusuable in practice (due to complexity, opaqueness, lack of libs, strange syntax etc).

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Re:Go as an alternative to Node.js for very fast servers by icedchai on Wednesday August 14, 2013 @12:16PM (#6212371)
IMO, simplicity, no surprises, doing stuff in a way that "makes sense" without a lot of boilerplate or cruft.
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