Google Go: Fischer Price’s My First Programming Language (elfsternberg.com) 8 points by golyi 7y ago ↗ HN
[–] mmoez 7y ago ↗ The takeaway from the article to which I tend to agree:"No one will ever write great software in Go." [–] karmakaze 7y ago ↗ The ex-Googlers chose Go to make CockroachDB on top of RocksDB. Use what makes sense. Use common sense don't pay any mind to dogma.
[–] karmakaze 7y ago ↗ The ex-Googlers chose Go to make CockroachDB on top of RocksDB. Use what makes sense. Use common sense don't pay any mind to dogma.
[–] zimpenfish 7y ago ↗ > Almost all the great software of the last 25 years was written in C or C++.Yes, because until relatively recently (~5y) there was bugger all else to choose for writing complex high performance software.> A developer working in Go [...] will always be a mediocre programmerThis is just the "blub language" elitist nonsense transposed with Rust as LISP.
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Yes, because until relatively recently (~5y) there was bugger all else to choose for writing complex high performance software.
> A developer working in Go [...] will always be a mediocre programmer
This is just the "blub language" elitist nonsense transposed with Rust as LISP.