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Just curious, why would this be downvoted?

Afforess 14y ago
If I had to guess, I would say because GP didn't actually give any real reasons why adding complexity (a new language) would improve or solve a problem. Advocating languages is fine, we all have our pet languages, but it is important to remember they each are just one tool in the toolbox and that what is more important is how the language solves the problem well, instead of just blindly advocating one language over another.
- voidlogic 14y ago
  Language comparison are so ridiculously multi-dimensional and my knowledge of Netflix's internal applications are shallow enough I thought specifics would be a waste of time. I see Go in general as a reaction to the overcomplexity of Java/C++ and the performance issues of Python/Ruby. Since Go seems to be popular with people who use Java/Python, and Netflix uses Java/Python, I was curious if Go was on the table. I would hardly call my original post blind advocacy...
  - sigzero 14y ago
    Some folks would consider this as an attempt to hijack the discussion. I am not saying that is what you are trying to do but what some folks would think. It gets tedious sometimes when the post is specifically about "Python at whatever" and people post "Hey you should use this language instead." Maybe that is why you were down voted. (FWIW, I did not down vote you.)
    - lclarkmichalek 14y ago
      I posted this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5356913 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5356913 today as a reply to someone who commented about Go on a post about programming languages today. It seems that (at least so far) I was correct.
      - belandrew 14y ago
        Besides Google using Go for some things like part of Youtube and dl.google.com, CloudFlare, Heroku, Canonical, Torbit, SoundCloud, BBC, and others are using Go for parts of their back-end infrastructures.
ketralnis 14y ago
Because it's not helpful to anyone. It just says "they should use my favourite toy instead of their favourite toy". No details about why or how it would help anyone anywhere ever. Just "Someone else should do a lot of work. Because I said so."

If I had to guess, I would say because GP didn't actually give any real reasons why adding complexity (a new language) would improve or solve a problem. Advocating languages is fine, we all have our pet languages, but it is important to remember they each are just one tool in the toolbox and that what is more important is how the language solves the problem well, instead of just blindly advocating one language over another.

voidlogic 14y ago
Language comparison are so ridiculously multi-dimensional and my knowledge of Netflix's internal applications are shallow enough I thought specifics would be a waste of time. I see Go in general as a reaction to the overcomplexity of Java/C++ and the performance issues of Python/Ruby. Since Go seems to be popular with people who use Java/Python, and Netflix uses Java/Python, I was curious if Go was on the table. I would hardly call my original post blind advocacy...
- sigzero 14y ago
  Some folks would consider this as an attempt to hijack the discussion. I am not saying that is what you are trying to do but what some folks would think. It gets tedious sometimes when the post is specifically about "Python at whatever" and people post "Hey you should use this language instead." Maybe that is why you were down voted. (FWIW, I did not down vote you.)
  - lclarkmichalek 14y ago
    I posted this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5356913 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5356913 today as a reply to someone who commented about Go on a post about programming languages today. It seems that (at least so far) I was correct.
    - belandrew 14y ago
      Besides Google using Go for some things like part of Youtube and dl.google.com, CloudFlare, Heroku, Canonical, Torbit, SoundCloud, BBC, and others are using Go for parts of their back-end infrastructures.

ketralnis 14y ago

Because it's not helpful to anyone. It just says "they should use my favourite toy instead of their favourite toy". No details about why or how it would help anyone anywhere ever. Just "Someone else should do a lot of work. Because I said so."