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Two fringe languages are not competitors. Who would have thought it.

• coldtea 11y ago
  First, being fringe doesn't make you non-competitor automatically. Fringe language can and often DO compete for the same niche. Second, with support from most major shops, and being deployed even in companies such as Apple, Mozilla, Facebook and more, Go is hardly "fringe" at this moment.
  • rockdoe 11y ago
    What's the source for Apple, Mozilla (ok Facebook I'm less surprised) deploying Go?
    • mseepgood 11y ago
      http://www.golangprojects.com/golang-go-job-in-Senior-CDN-DevOps-Software-Engineer-Santa-Clara-Valley-Apple.html http://www.golangprojects.com/golang-go-job-in-Senior-CDN-De... http://daringfireball.net/linked/2015/05/06/applebot http://daringfireball.net/linked/2015/05/06/applebot https://blog.mozilla.org/services/2013/04/30/introducing-heka/ https://blog.mozilla.org/services/2013/04/30/introducing-hek...
    • brianm 11y ago
      Most prominent Mozilla Go usage is Heka ( https://github.com/mozilla-services/heka https://github.com/mozilla-services/heka ). I don't know about Apple, but knowing a number of folks in infra and ops there, and their tendencies, I do not doubt it is in use in places.
    • ifross 11y ago
      Apple have posts for go jobs: http://www.golangprojects.com/golang-go-job-in-Senior-CDN-DevOps-Software-Engineer-Santa-Clara-Valley-Apple.html http://www.golangprojects.com/golang-go-job-in-Senior-CDN-De... There is also some conjecture that someone at Apple is writing a web scraper in Go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8567205 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8567205 Mozilla have a product called Heka written in Go: https://blog.mozilla.org/services/2013/04/30/introducing-heka/ https://blog.mozilla.org/services/2013/04/30/introducing-hek... Facebook have a load of open source libraries written in Go: https://github.com/facebookgo https://github.com/facebookgo