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How to Convince Your Company to Go with Golang
- overcast 11y agoI'll never understand the need for affirmation when it comes to new languages. Go is a great language, but why is it necessary to have incessant commenting and articles to convince others to jump in. Evaluate, and use what makes sense for your project. The entire last section is recognizing how library support is not very mature. How they'll need to invest a ton of time into training engineers, how the pool of applicants is small, but they are going to stick with it anyhow. For such a large established company, it just doesn't make sense to me "switching over" to the hot new language of the year. Though I suppose this is just a recruiting piece for their jobs page.
- taylodl 11y agoThis article is dated March 6, 2014 - that's over two years ago. At this point it would be more instructive to learn how the decision to Go panned out for them? Were there any unforeseen downsides they could warn us about? Were there any unforeseen upsides one could use when assessing Go for their organization? They're in a position now where they can tell us about Go from the trenches.