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All you're doing is exchanging one runtime, the JVM, that happens to be well understood, highly optimized, and has a decade long track record, and supported by

All you're doing is exchanging one runtime, the JVM, that happens to be well understood, highly optimized, and has a decade long track record, and supported by every major company on Earth... for Go's runtime, one that isn't well understood, does not have a track record, and is a product of a company that is known to just abandon popular services for no apparent reason. You also seem to have misunderstood what causes some apps to be a pain to deploy: the apps, themselves, suck, and would suck no matter what language they had been written in. Apache tends to become the home for a lot of projects that exhibit that particular issue, and Zookeeper does not seem to be an exception. Kafka likely also has a case of the Apacheisms going on, but also apparently has a non-trivial amount of Scala in it. Complaining about Kafka fits your requirements far more than Zookeeper alone does.

bananabreakfast 6y ago
Complaining about Google sunsetting consumer products as a means to disparage their technical contributions to open source software is incredibly trite and a very tired meme. So, so much of Google depends on Go. It is extremely well understood, has an excellent track record and has zero chance of being "abandoned"
tinco 6y ago
What about the JVM is well understood? The most common trope about it is that it's supposed to be the fastest VM ever because, but Java devs always manage to build slow apps in it. So much for understanding it well. The claim that Go does not have a track record is ridiculous. It's whole premise is that it's made to power essential parts of the largest IT operation in the world. And there's nothing for Google to cancel, it's open source and they even made the effort of translating it to Go so it's super easy to work on. And I'm not fanboying over Go, haven't written a Go service in years, but denying Go is an excellent platform to build these kinds of apps on is ridiculous.

bananabreakfast 6y ago

Complaining about Google sunsetting consumer products as a means to disparage their technical contributions to open source software is incredibly trite and a very tired meme. So, so much of Google depends on Go. It is extremely well understood, has an excellent track record and has zero chance of being "abandoned"

tinco 6y ago

What about the JVM is well understood? The most common trope about it is that it's supposed to be the fastest VM ever because, but Java devs always manage to build slow apps in it. So much for understanding it well. The claim that Go does not have a track record is ridiculous. It's whole premise is that it's made to power essential parts of the largest IT operation in the world. And there's nothing for Google to cancel, it's open source and they even made the effort of translating it to Go so it's super easy to work on. And I'm not fanboying over Go, haven't written a Go service in years, but denying Go is an excellent platform to build these kinds of apps on is ridiculous.