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Anecdotes like this makes me wonder how much funding money and electricity could be saved if people migrated en masse from Ruby/Python/Something else to Go. (E
by lpsz 11y ago
Anecdotes like this makes me wonder how much funding money and electricity could be saved if people migrated en masse from Ruby/Python/Something else to Go.
(Edit: not meant to be a political statement, more of a practical observation. I only recently started using Go.)
- tracker1 11y agoAlso, the more complex a system is, the less the runtime overhead is by comparison. Hello world examples in .Net, node.js etc are 35-20% the memory overhead compared to Java. It's not like golang doesn't have some overhead of its' own... There's also Rust, and D to consider.
- jacquesm 11y agoThat may be one of the bigger chances for go: mobile. After all being more efficient on mobile translates into longer battery life and go potentially has a huge advantage over the current java (ok, not java) based environment on Android. For google this would be a triple win, get out of the Oracle mess entirely, give their mobile developers a super fast toolchain and give the end users better battery life.
- swah 11y agoI love Golang, but its ain't very expressive, so it cannot be a good match for writing UIs. And Swift is much closer to Rust than to Go, IIUC...
- melling 11y agoThese guys went from 30 servers to 2 by switching to Go. http://www.iron.io/blog/2013/03/how-we-went-from-30-servers-to-2-go.html http://www.iron.io/blog/2013/03/how-we-went-from-30-servers-...
- dougbarrett 11y agothe best part was, they had 2 only for redundancy, they could have gotten away with only having one.