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Why would I use Go instead of Ruby/Python/nodeJS?
by wkdown 12y ago
Why would I use Go instead of Ruby/Python/nodeJS?
- skj 12y agoSo you can have a maintainable codebase.
- threeseed 12y agoWell that's just nonsense. You can have maintainable and unmaintainable codebases in any language.
- mistermumble 12y agoClearly you have never run across the same program, first in Perl, and then in Python, and felt the tangible differences in maintainability between the two implementations.
- sergiotapia 12y agoGo has a ton of things going for it! I suggest Googling for more info, but a couple of my favorite features: * I can use go fmt to format my code and it'll look nice. So many people use go fmt that most code bases are very easy to dive into. They all follow the standard! * No magic! You write what you want and the whole formality of the thing forces you to write better code. May be a placebo effect, but I find myself writing less buggy code in Go. * Compile to static binary you can just drop and run -anywhere-. No rvm gemsets, no rbenv, no bla bla bla - you want your code running, period.
- bhauer 12y agoGo provides performance headroom allowing you to develop low-latency applications without extraneous effort and premature optimization.