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Go requires knowledge of types, which already puts its cognitive complexity ahead of PHP for the typical content creator.

• nine_k 12y ago
  Go's types can be explained as some sort of templates for values (especially record types). Any CMS user knows about templates.
• Grazester 12y ago
  Are data types that complex a concept to grasp? When I started programming in VB I don't remember it being.
  • ddoolin 12y ago
    Maybe not, but it definitely requires you to sit down and learn & understand what's going on, often longer than most of these people want to spend on one particular subject that may not be part of their regular job.
  • vec 12y ago
    Data types aren't the bottleneck, the deployment model is. Editing a Go application requires the following steps: 1. Edit the project's files. 2. Open the (scary and alienating) command line. 3. Run `go build` and hope it works right. 4. Find and stop the old running server process and start the new version Oh, and you'd better hope step 3 goes smoothly, because a tiny mistake anywhere in your application will cause this weird thing called a "compiler error" that means that the entire thing will break. Editing a Wordpress site, on the other hand, looks like this: 1. Edit the project's files. 2. There is no step 2. As developers, we're comfortable with the first workflow. We happily accept the added complexity because of all the other nice things it gives us and because we're probably using other tools like version control that end up making our experience much more uniform between the two. But to a user whose primary experience is with editing Word documents there is a huge jump there.