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I assure you that the Go evangelists before you(in general if not here specifically) had no such compunction about imposing that language on whoever was unlucky
by ch4s3 2y ago
I assure you that the Go evangelists before you(in general if not here specifically) had no such compunction about imposing that language on whoever was unlucky enough to inherit it.
- ikety 2y agoTrue, but you kind of get to introduce what you want as long as it's popular and well backed. Even if I know a tool or language is better suited for a task, I always prioritize my employer's ability to maintain that project over time. That usually means using similar technologies, or otherwise popular, and well backed technologies. Go has that in abundance over Elixir. For any personal project I'd take Elixir the vast majority of the time.
- ch4s3 2y agoWhat I mean is that at some point Go was Rob Pike’s side project inside of Google and even Google wasn’t really using it. Back then it was an even more painful language to use. People outside of Google who latched on were imposing that choice on a lot of future maintainers.
- gregors 2y agoExtremely well said. There are reasons gigantic corporations like Microsoft and Google spend all that money convincing you to use their new creation.