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This is a really awkward sentence: "100% of our production system is now running Go as 95% of our application." I'm curious what the 5% is that they didn't con

• jmaygarden 14y ago
  Read the whole paragraph. It's C. "100% of our production system is now running Go as 95% of our application (C being the other bits). Not side bits, but our critical path."
  • dbecker 14y ago
    I meant "what functionality is the remaining 5%." Not "what language is it." Basically, once you are 95% Go, what parts are hard to convert to Go to make it 100%
    • luriel 14y ago
      Probably binding to pre-existing C libs. It will take some time to replace 40 years of existing accumulated C libraries.
      • Evbn 14y ago
        That would be silly. It's silly to talk about the source language of third party libraries when discussing languages you use. 3rd party library code is all object code or bytecode for all it matters to your project.