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Uh, Go is not a research project. It was written to be used, not to explore previous unexplored language features. Basically nothing in the language is new (or

Uh, Go is not a research project. It was written to be used, not to explore previous unexplored language features. Basically nothing in the language is new (or at least wasn't new to the creators), something that it is often criticized for. Dropbox has stated that pretty much their entire backend is written in Go. Go is also (obviously) used in production at Google. Neither Dropbox or Google is screwing around. Once a project is run at Google or Dropbox scale, it is no longer a research project. Go is very simple (many people say too simple) and writing a web app in it doesn't really require a very good understanding of the language. This is because very few of its more advanced features are really required for writing a normal web app. Because it isn't really a framework, it does require a good understanding of web development. I think Haskell can be fairly described as a research project and definitely requires a good understanding.

a_bonobo 10y ago
I think what erikpukinskis means may be more that Go is still a "non-mature"/"research" ecosystem - for example, what do you use for version control of dependencies? Rails has bundler, Go has a few different approaches, none of which are the go-to thing everybody uses.
dineshp2 10y ago
> Go is very simple (many people say too simple) and writing a web app in it doesn't really require a very good understanding of the language. But you do have to know to how to use the standard libraries well to write anything beyond a Hello World web app in Go. Just because the Go language itself is simple, it does not mean web development is easy in Go. Quite the opposite, you have to write a lot of boilerplate code in Go (even with Go frameworks) to do things that would seem trivial in other frameworks.
nbouscal 10y ago
Standard Chartered is a massive multi-national bank with a £17 billion market cap and a multi-million line Haskell code base. Is that still a research project?

a_bonobo 10y ago

I think what erikpukinskis means may be more that Go is still a "non-mature"/"research" ecosystem - for example, what do you use for version control of dependencies? Rails has bundler, Go has a few different approaches, none of which are the go-to thing everybody uses.

dineshp2 10y ago

> Go is very simple (many people say too simple) and writing a web app in it doesn't really require a very good understanding of the language. But you do have to know to how to use the standard libraries well to write anything beyond a Hello World web app in Go. Just because the Go language itself is simple, it does not mean web development is easy in Go. Quite the opposite, you have to write a lot of boilerplate code in Go (even with Go frameworks) to do things that would seem trivial in other frameworks.

nbouscal 10y ago

Standard Chartered is a massive multi-national bank with a £17 billion market cap and a multi-million line Haskell code base. Is that still a research project?