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Re:Why We Use Go by mahmoudimus on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @11:27PM (#9609155)
OP makes some reasonable arguments about the practical uses of Golang, but anecdotally and seriously evaluating it for a complex backend service, I felt that I had to write a non-trivial amount of "simple" code that felt like a mix of copy & paste procedural code with some very shallow object oriented programming.

I attempted to write the same service in Kotlin (http://kotlinlang.org), which felt mature and easy to understand. JetBrains did a great job also making it "boring." It felt like it was a boring attempt at making Java programming enjoyable. Along with 100% interoperable with Java libraries, alongside incredible tooling, made writing reasonably boring but functioning code very enjoyable.

To each their own, but I'm having a hard time justifying why I'd use something like Go over something like Kotlin. Maybe I'm missing something?

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Re:Why We Use Go by Manishearth on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @12:17AM (#9609306)
I think "To each to their own" is exactly the OPs point -- Go worked for them, but that doesn't say much about whether or not it will work for you (and vice versa). So you're probably not missing anything :)
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