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The problem here is that focusing on a language can lead to lots of small API design decisions that make it very cumbersome to support other systems later witho
by the_duke 5y ago
The problem here is that focusing on a language can lead to lots of small API design decisions that make it very cumbersome to support other systems later without significant breaking changes.
I can appreciate the ideological and practical purity of that decision, but even Linux aficionados need to deploy code to other operating systems to make a living.
- eatonphil 5y agoI don't have data to support it but even for Go, a language that does support macOS and Windows, it does not feel like the stdlib is as mature or performant as the Linux version. I don't have numbers for that yet just observations doing simple benchmarks across Linux, macOS and Windows. Some languages are just clearly designed to be used on the server.
- sealeck 5y agoBut there's a difference between "it works, but more slowly on <windows or macos> (people's development environments)" and "it doesn't work atoll"