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Are mobile apps the target market for Go? CI/CD takes care of upload for the dev side at least. It would be handy to have a compile time flag indicating the de

by sk0g 6y ago

Are mobile apps the target market for Go? CI/CD takes care of upload for the dev side at least. It would be handy to have a compile time flag indicating the desired file size optimisation level still, with tradeoffs being ease of debugging, and performance.

pjmlp 6y ago
Given that gomobile exists, maybe. CI/CD is something almost unknown outside HN bubble. Also that was just two examples, here are another two, cost of production for USB Armoury keys running Go bare metal, or download costs for WebAssembly modules written in Tiny Go.
- sk0g 6y ago
  Are you sure re: CI/CD? I was looking around the job market recently, and every role was interested in my experience in it, since they were using it too. To be honest, that could be self-selecting, as my resume likely attracts companies similar to ones I have worked at. I still do hear about microservices, CI/CD a whole lot in job descriptions etc, but whether they are already practicing it (well), is another question... I was going to suggest TinyGo! I mainly work on a backend system, so I guess we have different priorities and needs. The embedded work I have done has all been C/ ASM, though it could be fun to revisit with Go.
  - pjmlp 6y ago
    I still get to work on customers whose process is to compile on the IDE and manually copy a zip file into whatever environment they need to deploy. Companies whose main business is not selling software don't care much about whatever are best practices in software engineering.
  - sfkdjf9j3j 6y ago
    In terms of sheer numbers, I would guess that at least a plurality of websites are running old versions of PHP and are released via FTP. But I don't think that's really meaningful or interesting to worry about, since those services aren't even considering the tooling decisions we're talking about.

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Are mobile apps the target market for Go? CI/CD takes care of upload for the dev side at least. It would be handy to have a compile time flag indicating the de

by sk0g 6y ago

pjmlp 6y ago
Given that gomobile exists, maybe. CI/CD is something almost unknown outside HN bubble. Also that was just two examples, here are another two, cost of production for USB Armoury keys running Go bare metal, or download costs for WebAssembly modules written in Tiny Go.
- sk0g 6y ago
  Are you sure re: CI/CD? I was looking around the job market recently, and every role was interested in my experience in it, since they were using it too. To be honest, that could be self-selecting, as my resume likely attracts companies similar to ones I have worked at. I still do hear about microservices, CI/CD a whole lot in job descriptions etc, but whether they are already practicing it (well), is another question... I was going to suggest TinyGo! I mainly work on a backend system, so I guess we have different priorities and needs. The embedded work I have done has all been C/ ASM, though it could be fun to revisit with Go.
  - pjmlp 6y ago
    I still get to work on customers whose process is to compile on the IDE and manually copy a zip file into whatever environment they need to deploy. Companies whose main business is not selling software don't care much about whatever are best practices in software engineering.
  - sfkdjf9j3j 6y ago
    In terms of sheer numbers, I would guess that at least a plurality of websites are running old versions of PHP and are released via FTP. But I don't think that's really meaningful or interesting to worry about, since those services aren't even considering the tooling decisions we're talking about.