4 ms·
Apparently Google isn't a heavy Go user and has no plans to become one.
by ExpiredLink 14y ago
Apparently Google isn't a heavy Go user and has no plans to become one.
- cleverjake 14y agowhat? could you elaborate?
- ori_b 14y agoThat's not a comment on the technical benefits. It's a comment on turning around battleships. Porting large projects is lots of work, especially when there's plenty of stuff to do that directly impacts the customer. New projects are a different story.
- oconnor0 14y agoAnd it's not even necessarily a good idea to port large projects - completely ignoring the complexity of doing a port while continuing further development and maintenance on an existing product.
- stock_toaster 14y agoyoutube is part of google, and apparently all mysql requests at youtube now go through vitess (or so I read). That strikes me as pretty heavy use. I recall reading somewhere that Go was used for some other internal projects, but never heard what exactly for. So maybe it was just someone talking about some greenfield "20% time" projects or something.
- azernik 14y agoWell, given that YouTube is one of Google's most resource-intensive sites (remember that acquisition back in 2006?), I'd say that alone makes them a pretty heavy user; plus, that's just the bit they've open-sourced. The Go team makes constant reference to assorted internal infrastructure projects for which Google uses Go, but which have not been and which probably never will be publicized.
- duaneb 14y agoThis is flat out wrong.
- drivebyacct2 14y agoAnd... where and how did you draw such a conclusion?