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For me? Just Go. Building a service? Go. Need a light UI for the service? Go + Go html templates. Need a command line tool? Go. Building an interpreter or t

by rufius 5y ago

For me? Just Go. Building a service? Go. Need a light UI for the service? Go + Go html templates. Need a command line tool? Go. Building an interpreter or transpiler? Go. That’s just me though. The reason that’s my answer is I’ve been writing a lot of Go lately. Answers I might’ve given at another point in my career: - Rust - I’d still reach for this but I find it a little slower to work in for prototyping. - C# - F# - Ocaml - D - Pascal

etripe 5y ago
Interesting. If your evolution is anything to go by, I might be at an earlier point. Earlier I might have said perl or C#, nowadays I'd probably say F# or C# depending on what I'm looking to prototype. I find F# stimulates me to think about the kind of data and operations I want to support more than C# does. I would assume OCaml does the same. I know JS/TS, I find they're generally counterproductive in dissecting the problem I'm trying to solve. I might use them for rapid UI prototyping, if it's a very simple app. What made you pivot from .NET and Rust to Go? Is this a question of creature comfort, where you're just more accustomed to it nowadays and/or prefer the ecosystem? Does Go stimulate/force you to think about the problem differently and if so, how?
- rufius 5y ago
  Well this is cheating, but I stopped working for Microsoft :). I actually still quite like .NET on the whole. But the job I took after Microsoft had me writing Rust and Go. I should note the list is in no particular order. If it were ordered newest to oldest, it’d be: - Go - Rust - F# - C# - Ocaml - D - Pascal Languages I’ve used heavily but wouldn’t for prototyping are C and C++. Most of my time at Microsoft was 67-75% C/C++ and the rest some form of .NET.
joelbluminator 5y ago
What web frameworks are there in Goland? Is there anything trying to be Rails or is Go meant for small services?

by rufius 5y ago

etripe 5y ago

Interesting. If your evolution is anything to go by, I might be at an earlier point. Earlier I might have said perl or C#, nowadays I'd probably say F# or C# depending on what I'm looking to prototype. I find F# stimulates me to think about the kind of data and operations I want to support more than C# does. I would assume OCaml does the same. I know JS/TS, I find they're generally counterproductive in dissecting the problem I'm trying to solve. I might use them for rapid UI prototyping, if it's a very simple app. What made you pivot from .NET and Rust to Go? Is this a question of creature comfort, where you're just more accustomed to it nowadays and/or prefer the ecosystem? Does Go stimulate/force you to think about the problem differently and if so, how?

rufius 5y ago
Well this is cheating, but I stopped working for Microsoft :). I actually still quite like .NET on the whole. But the job I took after Microsoft had me writing Rust and Go. I should note the list is in no particular order. If it were ordered newest to oldest, it’d be: - Go - Rust - F# - C# - Ocaml - D - Pascal Languages I’ve used heavily but wouldn’t for prototyping are C and C++. Most of my time at Microsoft was 67-75% C/C++ and the rest some form of .NET.

joelbluminator 5y ago

What web frameworks are there in Goland? Is there anything trying to be Rails or is Go meant for small services?