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Actually moving to Go was a very thorough and long process. We did small example projects and tried out many of the libraries we needed. The blogpost is more o
by tschellenbach 9y ago
Actually moving to Go was a very thorough and long process. We did small example projects and tried out many of the libraries we needed. The blogpost is more of a high level summary of why Go is such a great language.
- trustfundbaby 9y agoI thought it was very thoughtful, detailed, well written and touched on all the points I would need to make a similar decision if it ever came down to it. Thanks for writing it.
- d23 9y agoOh hey, it's you. I weirdly recognize your name from many many years ago. I have vague memories of dealing with you in submitting an open source patch for Django Facebook. Or maybe it was just a documentation change. Either way I remember you being very polite and professional. Just wanted to say that stuck with me and please keep it up, as I can see you're doing here!
- VintageCool 9y agoDid the Go implementation of the ranked feed use the algorithm optimizations discovered while optimizing the Python implementation?
- tschellenbach 9y agoNo most of the optimization were Python specific. But of course development time was a bit faster due to it being the 2nd time solving the same problem.