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This is my biggest worry about the future of Go, that it will gain enough adoption at enterprise shops that we'll end up with another Java-esque ecosystem. So f
by eikenberry 7y ago
This is my biggest worry about the future of Go, that it will gain enough adoption at enterprise shops that we'll end up with another Java-esque ecosystem. So far it has seemed to have avoided that trap, but it is still a young language.
- KirinDave 7y agoI am ... Quite surprised to see folks arguing that Java has "too many" features. For a log time the problem was we couldn't get ANY new language features through committee and so we were resorting to outrageous hacks.
- eikenberry 7y agoI said nothing about Java features. I was strictly referring to their Ecosystem, which I found to be terrible (though it's been a couple years).
- RhodesianHunter 7y agoThe only people in my experience that complain about the Java ecosystem have limited experience with Java 7 or before and haven't done any real modern Java development in many years.
- tomohawk 7y agoI've been using Java since it was released, and (at the same time) Go for several years now. The amount of cognitive overhead in dealing with all the history that's baked into Java is really annoying. Things like the dated concurrency model, the overachieving in logging (and other) libraries (when one to use?), the poorly thought out I/O libraries, the crazy build tools and slow builds, ... It's always a relief to get back the the smoothness of Go.