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Modern C++14 provides quite good support on those fronts, and modern Java8 has lost most of its "code notoriety". But that's just arguing back and forth. Here'
by fnl 10y ago
Modern C++14 provides quite good support on those fronts, and modern Java8 has lost most of its "code notoriety".
But that's just arguing back and forth. Here's the real argument: What popular OSS projects of noteworthy scale are being developed in Go? I know a few dozens in either Java or C++, and even a few fairly noticable Scala projects (Spark, Flink, Play, ...), but I yet have to see anything written in Go that can be called "industrial sized".
- tasuki 10y agoDocker is written in golang: https://github.com/docker/docker https://github.com/docker/docker
- benjaminjackman 10y agoI think IPFS is being made in go. Not sure if that qualifies as industrial sized or not.
- sjellis 10y agoIf you want examples of "industrial-sized" Go projects right now, you may have to look at case studies for proprietary cloud infrastructure, e.g. CloudFlare, Fastly, DigitalOcean, SoundCloud, and SendGrid. These companies obviously don't open up their product code, but they've been happy to share some information about their use of Go.
- jgrahamc 10y agoWe share quite a lot of code: https://cloudflare.github.io/#cat-Go https://cloudflare.github.io/#cat-Go
- fnl 10y agoYes, I've noticed for years that Go gets heavily used in web service-oriented startups with many concurrent users (plus, its easier to pick up than Erlang :-)). But what I would really hope to see is Go being used for anything else than servers/services. I understand this is all the rage for certain companies, but none of that directly touches my own interests. Is Go only good for that niche, or will we see Go being adopted outside that "web services world"? E.g., for building old-school desktop apps, Go's concurrency features might be pretty cool - if its not too low-level for that?