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It's Go's simplicity that really struck a nerve with me. I've been coding for over 30 years now (Basic, ASM, C/C++, Java, Python, PHP, JS, Clojure) and with Go,

by rivo 12y ago

It's Go's simplicity that really struck a nerve with me. I've been coding for over 30 years now (Basic, ASM, C/C++, Java, Python, PHP, JS, Clojure) and with Go, I just love how everything is laid out for you: idiomatic Go, formatting, commenting, unit testing, concurrence, standard libraries etc. I don't have to research the basic tools. It keeps me focused on the task at hand. I'm very productive with Go. We have it in production and I'm super happy with it. (Btw, I never missed generics. If you pick a language based on its number of features, Go may not be for you.)

marianov 12y ago
Since you know Python, do you find Gonas expresive an clear as Python? Is there anything like list comprehensions and generators in Go? And anything simple like the Flask web framework? How does it compare to deploying a python app using uwsgi+nginx in terms of performance / reliability?
- NateDad 12y ago
  There are no list comprehensions, but they're just trivial loops, anyway. Generators of a sort can be created, but are not commonly used. There are several web frameworks, I don't know flask, so can't answer if any are like that, but even with just the standard library you can trivially put up a web server that has routes and responds appropriately, plus json and html & text templates are in the stdlib too. Deployment is where Go shines. You don't need nginx or a specific runtime, or uwsgi. You just deploy the file and run it. It runs its own web server. The web server is on par with nginx for performance, and is as stable as your code is (which is generally very stable, since Go's error handling is very explicit). And of course Go code in general is approximately 10x as fast as python.
jksmith 12y ago
Preach it! Been using Go for a while now, and I haven't been able to keep this much of the problem domain in my head since my days coding in M2. IMO, that's the point of Go.

by rivo 12y ago

marianov 12y ago

Since you know Python, do you find Gonas expresive an clear as Python? Is there anything like list comprehensions and generators in Go? And anything simple like the Flask web framework? How does it compare to deploying a python app using uwsgi+nginx in terms of performance / reliability?

NateDad 12y ago
There are no list comprehensions, but they're just trivial loops, anyway. Generators of a sort can be created, but are not commonly used. There are several web frameworks, I don't know flask, so can't answer if any are like that, but even with just the standard library you can trivially put up a web server that has routes and responds appropriately, plus json and html & text templates are in the stdlib too. Deployment is where Go shines. You don't need nginx or a specific runtime, or uwsgi. You just deploy the file and run it. It runs its own web server. The web server is on par with nginx for performance, and is as stable as your code is (which is generally very stable, since Go's error handling is very explicit). And of course Go code in general is approximately 10x as fast as python.

jksmith 12y ago

Preach it! Been using Go for a while now, and I haven't been able to keep this much of the problem domain in my head since my days coding in M2. IMO, that's the point of Go.