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Of course you can find people using all manners of languages/systems in production. That doesn't mean they are well designed. And I don't think it's necessary f

Of course you can find people using all manners of languages/systems in production. That doesn't mean they are well designed. And I don't think it's necessary for me to reiterate at this point why Go is poorly designed.

Thaxll 9y ago
And yet Go is used by more and more large project / compagnies where supposing superior languages are nowhere because way too complex.
- coldtea 9y ago
  Well, it's used by 1/10 to 1/100 the number of large project/companies that C++, Java, and C# are used. So there's always that.
  - gribbly 9y ago
    It's also a MUCH younger language than those you listed, that said I don't think Go or any other of the 'new languages on the block' will reach anything near the wide use of languages like C++ or Java, atleast not in my lifetime.
    - coldtea 9y ago
      Well, Java had that wide an adoption (in the enterprise) already 10 years after it was introduced. It appeared on 1995 -- but 2005 it was already the de-facto enterprise backend language. Ditto for C#, but of course C# was pushed by MS as the native solution for Windows, a platform that already had 95% market share.
      - geodel 9y ago
        1995-2005 was the time when traditional IT industry grew to such humongous proportion. Global delivery model, offshore development and so on were developed during that time. So either way Java/C# came at right time or IT industry grew due to them. Lots of new software and users were created which did not exist before and not the wholesale rewrite of pre-existing software else e.g. COBOL could have gone from banking sector. So asking Go to be popular as Java in 10 years is to live up to expectation that past languages weren't asked.
- kmicklas 9y ago
  It's more than anything because of Google's clout, and secondarily the general worse-is-better fetish in tech. Go actually just pushes all the complexity into the code you write with it, so I don't buy that that is the reason.

Thaxll 9y ago

And yet Go is used by more and more large project / compagnies where supposing superior languages are nowhere because way too complex.

coldtea 9y ago
Well, it's used by 1/10 to 1/100 the number of large project/companies that C++, Java, and C# are used. So there's always that.
- gribbly 9y ago
  It's also a MUCH younger language than those you listed, that said I don't think Go or any other of the 'new languages on the block' will reach anything near the wide use of languages like C++ or Java, atleast not in my lifetime.
  - coldtea 9y ago
    Well, Java had that wide an adoption (in the enterprise) already 10 years after it was introduced. It appeared on 1995 -- but 2005 it was already the de-facto enterprise backend language. Ditto for C#, but of course C# was pushed by MS as the native solution for Windows, a platform that already had 95% market share.
    - geodel 9y ago
      1995-2005 was the time when traditional IT industry grew to such humongous proportion. Global delivery model, offshore development and so on were developed during that time. So either way Java/C# came at right time or IT industry grew due to them. Lots of new software and users were created which did not exist before and not the wholesale rewrite of pre-existing software else e.g. COBOL could have gone from banking sector. So asking Go to be popular as Java in 10 years is to live up to expectation that past languages weren't asked.
kmicklas 9y ago
It's more than anything because of Google's clout, and secondarily the general worse-is-better fetish in tech. Go actually just pushes all the complexity into the code you write with it, so I don't buy that that is the reason.