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I've only worked in Elixir. I think I just recently experienced some Go "fomo" because it seems to be more or less attempting to solve the same problem. I can't
by jowi-dev 6y ago
I've only worked in Elixir. I think I just recently experienced some Go "fomo" because it seems to be more or less attempting to solve the same problem. I can't quite justify moving to Go from Elixir + Rust, but I'm always interested in hearing the community at-large take. Thanks for the response!
- dnautics 6y agoI've done both (Go first, actually), and I hated Go. And all of my dev friends who are still in goland have nothing but complaints. Small sample size (n ~ 3), but still.
- sdfin 6y agoI'd find it interesting to know what those complaints are about.
- FridgeSeal 6y agonot the person you're responding to, but this blog and blog post has some good, in-depth points: https://fasterthanli.me/articles/i-want-off-mr-golangs-wild-ride https://fasterthanli.me/articles/i-want-off-mr-golangs-wild-...
- sdfin 6y agoThanks. After reading it, I wonder if the problems he mentions only occur in Go, or if they occur in most languages that are not Rust.
- dnautics 6y agoNone of these problems are problems in elixir or zig, the two langs I'm most familiar with currently (they are handled differently, of course).
- dnautics 6y agoComplaints I've heard: json broken, no good way to do orm, http library not great, no good framework for http webserver, etc. Channels/goroutines are deceptively hard, easy to cause resource leaks.