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The last couple of years are showing that Go delivers, it's pretty easy to find dozen of "real" software written in Go that are weidly used.

• BoorishBears 6y ago
  Sometimes I don't know why I bother talking about Go. It's proponents are so quick to go defensive that no one is capable of reading any complaint in an even mildly charitable light. I mean I shouldn't literally have to say "I'm not saying you can't use Go for real work before someone flies at me." When talking about a language as widely used as Go right? Like that's common sense! And yet of course I'm getting replies that do exactly that because of how darn defensive people need to be about it.
  • Thaxll 6y ago
    Maybe don't use things like " to a language more suited for real work."
    • BoorishBears 6y ago
      There is a literal full paragraph dedicated to explaining it, maybe don't ignore the oodles of context I left to avoid exactly what you did. Saying other languages are more suited to real work doesn't mean Go isn't suited at all, it literally means other languages are more angled towards the "end product" or the "real meat and potatoes" of just making a thing work than Go. It's literally a strength of Go. Go doesn't want to include the kitchen sink or even confine you to having a kitchen at all and I respect that. But I'm saying that other languages that include more in the way of affordances can help one be more productive, and I believe combining a language that includes more, with the mindset of not abusing the buffet is a winning combination. Ymmv, I'm not an oracle, I just expect people to read things in a reasonably charitable way which usually works fine as long as they're not being defensive.