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Heard people are using Go for scripting in Google? Which is pretty counter-intuitive for me.
by oh-kumudo 9y ago
Heard people are using Go for scripting in Google? Which is pretty counter-intuitive for me.
- jackmott 9y agowhat does scripting mean?
- tyingq 9y agoHrm. That is stretching the definition of scripting quite a bit. No REPL and clearly lower level than shell, Perl, Python, Ruby, no dynamic typing, etc. Not knocking golang at all, but "scripting"? I would agree that some problems solved by scripting could/should be replaced with something more precise. But golang wouldn't be a great fill in for true scripting needs.
- ben_jones 9y agoWell if you had to write a highly concurrent script, like to test a network or something, Go would be a good fit.