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Do they even service the same domains though? For me, Go is a faster, more explicit Python. In some domains, it is even more batteries-included, especially wher

by sk0g 6y ago

Do they even service the same domains though? For me, Go is a faster, more explicit Python. In some domains, it is even more batteries-included, especially where I use it - backend development. It has a great balance of ease of development, deployment, and performance. Sure, it was billed as a systems language at first, and it saw some traction there (Kubernetes, Docker, etc), but IMO, it sits halfway between Python and C, and it's a language I'm quite happy with for the most part.

skrtskrt 6y ago
seriously, for most of us it's just faster statically typed Python and it rocks at that.
- mratsim 6y ago
  For me it's an interface-typed Python. I'm not sure people are even using types, lack of generics and what not, ....
  - sk0g 6y ago
    Sounds like you're doing Python with 10x the steps! What's your use case?
    - mratsim 6y ago
      I don't use Go
loopz 6y ago
It's still a systems language. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_programming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_programming I think people confuse it with low-level language, which Golang is not of course. That people normally agree with their prejudices, doesn't necessarily make them correct.
- sk0g 6y ago
  You're right, I thought systems programming was synonymous with embedded. Evidently not! Cheers for the correction. Interestingly, Rust, (Nim,) and Swift are listed under systems programming languages, while Go and Kotlin are not.