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Currently working as a backend dev in a mid-sized company. Current directive is a gradual migration to Go for backend services that used to be written in Python

Currently working as a backend dev in a mid-sized company. Current directive is a gradual migration to Go for backend services that used to be written in Python/Django.

CameronNemo 6y ago
Why?
- AlexCoventry 6y ago
  Go is a more restrictive language, which makes it slightly harder to create horrible codebases. It's also faster and a bit cheaper to deploy.
  - DangitBobby 6y ago
    > which makes it slightly harder to create horrible codebases Going to have to strongly disagree. It forces you to make horrible codebases with endless boilerplate code and increased complexity introduced by workarounds for abstractions you can suddenly no longer make due to questionable language limitations. You will get improved performance, however.
    - logicchains 6y ago
      Any abstraction possible in Python can be expressed in Go just via the interface{} type, as the type of everything in Python is just interface{}.
      - DangitBobby 6y ago
        Whether something can technically be done and whether it is good/easy/simple/etc. are totally different conversations. I'm pretty sure you can't implement a min function that works on both strings and ints in Go by using the interface{} abstraction.
      - fauigerzigerk 6y ago
        No, that's not true at all. Just try to create an OrderedMap that supports the same abstract interface as Go's built-in map type, or try to implement a decimal floating point type that supports the same operators as the built-in binary floating point type. It's not possible.
    - AlexCoventry 6y ago
      I've seen people complain about that, but I've been using golang for over two years, and I haven't really had to face that pain, yet. I used python for twenty years prior to that, and love sophisticated programming constructions (did a lot of work with clojure, learnt haskell, went through On Lisp), so it's not as if I don't know what I'm missing.

Currently working as a backend dev in a mid-sized company. Current directive is a gradual migration to Go for backend services that used to be written in Python/Django.

CameronNemo 6y ago

Why?

AlexCoventry 6y ago
Go is a more restrictive language, which makes it slightly harder to create horrible codebases. It's also faster and a bit cheaper to deploy.
- DangitBobby 6y ago
  > which makes it slightly harder to create horrible codebases Going to have to strongly disagree. It forces you to make horrible codebases with endless boilerplate code and increased complexity introduced by workarounds for abstractions you can suddenly no longer make due to questionable language limitations. You will get improved performance, however.
  - logicchains 6y ago
    Any abstraction possible in Python can be expressed in Go just via the interface{} type, as the type of everything in Python is just interface{}.
    - DangitBobby 6y ago
      Whether something can technically be done and whether it is good/easy/simple/etc. are totally different conversations. I'm pretty sure you can't implement a min function that works on both strings and ints in Go by using the interface{} abstraction.
    - fauigerzigerk 6y ago
      No, that's not true at all. Just try to create an OrderedMap that supports the same abstract interface as Go's built-in map type, or try to implement a decimal floating point type that supports the same operators as the built-in binary floating point type. It's not possible.
  - AlexCoventry 6y ago
    I've seen people complain about that, but I've been using golang for over two years, and I haven't really had to face that pain, yet. I used python for twenty years prior to that, and love sophisticated programming constructions (did a lot of work with clojure, learnt haskell, went through On Lisp), so it's not as if I don't know what I'm missing.