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What do you mean by "Go has succeeded"? It has found its niche, yes, but so have those HM languages (maybe the Go niche is a bit bigger), and a bunch of other l
by Tainnor 3y ago
What do you mean by "Go has succeeded"? It has found its niche, yes, but so have those HM languages (maybe the Go niche is a bit bigger), and a bunch of other languages that people also like to hate.
Meanwhile, most code is still written in languages like Java, C and PHP.
That's no value judgement or anything, I don't think Java is an amazing language (neither do I think it's a terrible one), but it's not like Go has revolutionised anything. It's just become a new option among many.
- EspressoGPT 3y agoThe fact that you mention Go, an 11-year-old language, alongside a 27-year-old, a 51-year-old and a 28-year-old language proves that it has succeeded.
- Tainnor 3y agoThen so has Ruby, Haskell, Erlang, and a bunch of other languages that espouse virtues completely contrary to Go. So I'm not sure what your point is? Also you didn't even get my point because I explictly contrasted Go, as a niche language, with the big languages that most things are written in.