Ask HN: Should I learn Scala or Go?

Re:Ask HN: Should I learn Scala or Go? by mangeletti on Wednesday April 15, 2015 @12:32PM (#9382141)

Thanks. This is really helpful advice, and the ORM-related comments you made resonate with me, because the use of abstracted data backing services is sort of the meat and potatoes in just about any web app I can think of, and this was a real pain point in my initial research of Go. All of the ORM-ish things I've found are mediocre, at best, IMHO.

I ROFL at "Like a savage.", btw.

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Re:Ask HN: Should I learn Scala or Go? by tptacek on Wednesday April 15, 2015 @12:39PM (#9382202)

You can get around it by using more recent databases; Rethink for instance might close the gap. But then you're using an idiosyncratic database for kind of a weird reason. Personally, I want to preserve a default of using Postgres, and I don't like that Golang pulls me away from that a little.

That said: I really like Golang a lot.

For Microcorruption, we did the overwhelming majority in Golang, exposing it as a JSON RPC endpoint, and then did the UI in a very small amount of Rails. It worked quite well.

One thing you can for sure say about Golang: it is fast. We deployed 3 app servers but if we had deployed only 1 it still wouldn't have broken a sweat.

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Re:Ask HN: Should I learn Scala or Go? by mangeletti on Wednesday April 15, 2015 @12:50PM (#9382287)

I agree 100% about your Postgres point. I don't want to ever be in a situation where I can't use Postgres, unless we're in a situation wherein Postgres has taken the back seat to some other database that is A) ACID compliant, B) really fast and scalable and B) fairly widely adopted.

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