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Man, Google sure is good at marketing their language. Front page of HN like every day.

by elchief 12y ago

cnbuff410 12y ago
Why can't people love Go not because of Google, but the language itself? Don't be deceived by your hate towards any specific company, otherwise you will miss a lot of beautiful, useful, adorable things in this world.
- Chronic26 12y ago
  Google created or not, there are many better alternatives to Go.
- mrweasel 12y ago
  I do actually. Google isn't a company I'm to happy about these days, but I do like that they're spending at least some of the money earned from the advertising business on funding projects like Go. Go isn't a language I've used in production, but it's something I'm playing around with. I really like the standard library, there's a few thing ( like variable assignment ) that just wrong, but overall it's really a fun language. The main feature I really really want to make use of is the statically compiled binaries. Deployment just becomes so much easier compared to pretty much anything.
withdavidli 12y ago
While I do see Go a lot, I don't usually see Dart. People can just like the language, but the upvote system is anon...
gerardvanvooren 12y ago
I bet there are more postings about Rust than any other language these days.
- Daishiman 12y ago
  From a theoretical standpoint, Rust is a far more interesting language.
  - gerardvanvooren 12y ago
    ... than any other language??? I am not talking about Go here. Rust gets more coverage than any other language these days.
  - dscrd 12y ago
    From a practical standpoint, Go is -- at least for the time being. And this is not primarily a site for academic PL theorists, is it?
    - Daishiman 12y ago
      The potential for Rust to innovate in a space completely dominated by C and C++ in the past decade has piked the interest of people who had never considered any other language for development. Go, in contrast, is fairly unremarkable language. That doesn't make it bad in any way (tried and true combined with a primary emphasis in maintainable software is a winning combo), it's just that it's attacking a space which many other languages have dealt with before.
      - dllthomas 12y ago
        The idiom is "piqued interest". Go has more "Piked interest".
    - dllthomas 12y ago
      "And this is not primarily a site for academic PL theorists, is it?" Wait, this isn't LtU?
evidencepi 12y ago
As a gopher, in fact I don't feel that golang can be called "the Google's language". Google still relies on C++ a lot. I believe in go because I trust the go team! Especially after reading Rob Pike's blog on the motivation of developing this language, I told myself, this language will Go far. FYI: http://commandcenter.blogspot.it/2012/06/less-is-exponentially-more.html http://commandcenter.blogspot.it/2012/06/less-is-exponential...

Man, Google sure is good at marketing their language. Front page of HN like every day.

by elchief 12y ago

Man, Google sure is good at marketing their language. Front page of HN like every day.

Why can't people love Go not because of Google, but the language itself? Don't be deceived by your hate towards any specific company, otherwise you will miss a lot of beautiful, useful, adorable things in this world.

Chronic26 12y ago
Google created or not, there are many better alternatives to Go.
mrweasel 12y ago
I do actually. Google isn't a company I'm to happy about these days, but I do like that they're spending at least some of the money earned from the advertising business on funding projects like Go. Go isn't a language I've used in production, but it's something I'm playing around with. I really like the standard library, there's a few thing ( like variable assignment ) that just wrong, but overall it's really a fun language. The main feature I really really want to make use of is the statically compiled binaries. Deployment just becomes so much easier compared to pretty much anything.

withdavidli 12y ago

While I do see Go a lot, I don't usually see Dart. People can just like the language, but the upvote system is anon...

gerardvanvooren 12y ago

I bet there are more postings about Rust than any other language these days.

Daishiman 12y ago
From a theoretical standpoint, Rust is a far more interesting language.
- gerardvanvooren 12y ago
  ... than any other language??? I am not talking about Go here. Rust gets more coverage than any other language these days.
- dscrd 12y ago
  From a practical standpoint, Go is -- at least for the time being. And this is not primarily a site for academic PL theorists, is it?
  - Daishiman 12y ago
    The potential for Rust to innovate in a space completely dominated by C and C++ in the past decade has piked the interest of people who had never considered any other language for development. Go, in contrast, is fairly unremarkable language. That doesn't make it bad in any way (tried and true combined with a primary emphasis in maintainable software is a winning combo), it's just that it's attacking a space which many other languages have dealt with before.
    - dllthomas 12y ago
      The idiom is "piqued interest". Go has more "Piked interest".
  - dllthomas 12y ago
    "And this is not primarily a site for academic PL theorists, is it?" Wait, this isn't LtU?

evidencepi 12y ago

As a gopher, in fact I don't feel that golang can be called "the Google's language". Google still relies on C++ a lot. I believe in go because I trust the go team! Especially after reading Rob Pike's blog on the motivation of developing this language, I told myself, this language will Go far. FYI: http://commandcenter.blogspot.it/2012/06/less-is-exponentially-more.html http://commandcenter.blogspot.it/2012/06/less-is-exponential...