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That's really interesting! Go gravitated towards request-processing services in part because that was the largest audience in the immediate environment, which i
by millstone 9y ago
That's really interesting! Go gravitated towards request-processing services in part because that was the largest audience in the immediate environment, which in turn gelled Go's future.
We can imagine Go with the same engineers but at Microsoft or Apple or Mozilla, and its evolution would have been different because its first clients would have been different. The times make the man, and the language!
- danaliv 9y agoAnd because that's just about the only thing it's good for. Go has all the capabilities of Pascal circa 1990. No one in their right mind is going to use it to write a modern web browser.
- geodel 9y agoNo one in right mind should have written high perf backend servers in Javascript, desktop apps in electron or databases in Java but here we are.