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>Go pretty much ate the lunch of C# and Java when it comes to backends and devops Are you saying that Go is significantly more popular than Java for backend, s
by petersellers 8y ago
>Go pretty much ate the lunch of C# and Java when it comes to backends and devops
Are you saying that Go is significantly more popular than Java for backend, server-side development? I'd like to see a citation on that, because pretty much any statistic I've read has said otherwise. If you are saying it's significantly more performant, then I'd like to see evidence for that too.
- ilovecaching 8y agoBenchmarking is error prone, and so are language statistics. Certainly Go has had a meteoric rise and much of the big innovations are happening in Go (Kubernetes, Docker, Prometheus, Terraform). Go is simple, easy to install, and the benifits of a compiled language are huge. I can apply all of my systems knowledge to understand how my app is performing. The JVM is a career in of itself, and locks you into an ecosystem that is very proprietary and frankly full of lame enterprise salesmen and big business fogies. Go is fun. It’s branding is fun, it’s community is passionate, and a lot of big names are on the tin that speaks to a lot of us who love and grew up on Unix. I mean, do you want to support Oracle and Larry’s bid to buy more islands or ken and rob?
- blub 8y agoCompared to passionate comunities, fun and evil CEO arguments, benchmarking and language statistics are not error prone. You're not really arguing in good faith. This reads more like a parody.
- igouy 8y ago> Benchmarking is error prone, and so are language statistics. … and so is just saying stuff :-)