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I was drawn to Go because it was the only language at the time (or the only one I came across) that allowed me to build and package software without learning a
by weberc2 7y ago
I was drawn to Go because it was the only language at the time (or the only one I came across) that allowed me to build and package software without learning a domain specific language and imperatively stitching together my own build system (looking at you, CMake and Gradle). Basically I want to focus on writing my program, not writing programs to build my program.
Go let me run “go build”, and everything Just Worked. It has since become a little more complicated with the introduction of modules, but still vastly better than C++, Java, or Python.
- dev_dull 7y agoThe building and deploying of Go code is refreshingly easy.
- gigatexal 7y agoI came to Go when modules had been released and found it much easier to understand than GOPATH style workflows. I guess to each their own. I agree, go build, and go distribution is so awesome.
- weberc2 7y agoI’m not opposed to modules; there are just some odd edge cases that have given me trouble; probably the error messaging just needs to be improved.