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But why are you learning Go?
by josefrichter 5y ago
But why are you learning Go?
- egypturnash 5y agoWhen I returned to work after my 6 month break, CodePen was moving their backend code from Ruby on Rails to Go, and Front End to Next.js. So I am now learning how to program with Go and reading a lot of Next.js docs and resources. If you go to the front page of her site, it says Hi I'm Rach. I'm a developer building software for CodePen, wife, mother of two, productivity nerd and recovering screen addict. This is my blog. So: someone at $dayjob decided it was time to rewrite $dayjob in Go. Thus, everyone there must learn Go.
- Animats 5y agoGo is a good choice for web backends. Google maintains the libraries for most of the things you need for web backends, so they're well-debugged and heavily used. The language itself is just adequate, as it was designed to be. It's not overdesigned. I've used Go for a web backend. Partly because it's fast enough that I can get quite a bit of useful work done on a US$12/month shared hosting account. It's amusing to see how much you can get done on low-cost shared hosting. I write high-performance 3D stuff in Rust, but wouldn't bother with it for webcrap.