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Well they did port dl.google.com from a very large C++ codebase to go. Do you have any apps you've worked on that are higher traffice than dl.google.com?
by SEJeff 7y ago
Well they did port dl.google.com from a very large C++ codebase to go. Do you have any apps you've worked on that are higher traffice than dl.google.com?
- papito 7y agoI didn't say Go is unusable - I said it's full of bad design decisions. Google has a LOT of people who are Go fanboys. It's their in-house language. Terraform is also written in Go, and even though I refer to it to see how they manage a larger Go codebase, my question is - "so"? This is my opinion from writing Go, I have no problems pointing out what I don't like, even though at Google, I am sure, it would be unforgivable blasphemy.
- azth 7y agoThat's not an argument. There are many websites that are higher traffic, yet written in slow languages like Ruby and Python.
- papito 7y agoGive me a fast language and I WILL find a way to achieve horrible performance.
- SEJeff 7y agoSure, instagram is a giant django app running ontop of many postgres databases. But I was pointing out that Go can be used for very large codebases running high traffic sites.
- papito 7y agoIt compiles to bytecode, of course it is fast - we are specifically discussing language features and developer experience.