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Woah! How time flies! Somehow still no one I know knows what Go is!
by fowl2 9y ago
Woah! How time flies!
Somehow still no one I know knows what Go is!
- Insanity 9y agoAt work we have recently started using Go. When I told one of my developer friends that I was doing some Go projects, he was confused and thought I meant "Pokemon Go". So yeah, you might have a point, sadly.
- pmarreck 9y agoa developer who hasn’t heard of Go must live under some special kind of rock
- kmicklas 9y agoHopefully it's a very good kind of rock where there are no bad languages like Go.
- hactually 9y agowhat makes it a bad language? have you written much in it? what didn't you like/couldn't you do?
- kmicklas 9y agoUnfortunately I have to write it nearly every day in my job at Google. The biggest failures are the lack of generics or any form of immutability. It's basically impossible to write any kind of abstraction in Go. That's unacceptable for a language created in the 21st century.
- choward 9y agoA rock with ".NET" written on the side of it.
- pmarreck 9y agoah, "microsoft people." Left that rigorously-walled garden a long time ago without looking back... it was the right move for me.
- technion 9y agoDon't underestimate the echo chamber here in regards to language popularity. I manage servers for an awful lot of developers and, from my conversations with them, I'd be surprised if I could say more than single digit percentage have ever heard of Go.