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> Go is for distributed systems Go is for distributed SERVERS.

• zzzcpan 9y ago
  Yeah, Go is pretty bad at distributed systems programming, well, idiomatic Go. It can be tolerable if we throw away all those poorly designed idiomatic networking packages and multithreading. But it's definitely not for distributed systems. Its niche is more in boring servers and command-line apps where an interpreted language would be too slow, too memory hungry or harder to ship, where you can get away with only the simplest concurrency, but still prepared to deal with time-consuming concurrency bugs. Like a typical commercial CRUD app, a command line automation and data processing utility, a quick one-off program.
  • user5994461 9y ago
    Or in simpler terms. Any server app where python/perl/ruby are too slow, and you can't use java/C#/C++ for some reasons.