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0 pointsrartichoke12y ago0 comments

The development speed isn't very good with Go because you have to re-invent almost everything yourself because the web libs are seriously years behind other platforms.

The default template language is also really archaic and no one has created a solid alternative yet that's actually well tested and used by the masses.

It might have good execution speed and the language itself might be nice but the only thing that matters is going from point A to point B. Go will not get you there faster than other languages and the execution speed is a non-issue for pretty much every platform (even rails) if you use tools available to you to their fullest.

P.S., I compared Go to Node almost a year ago and even wrote a mini framework for Go to resemble a smaller version of Express. I eventually just said fk it and stopped because the gains were not even close to being worth it.

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redneckbeard12y ago· 3 in thread

My understanding is that many people try Go and decide they don't like it, as you did; at the same time, many have experiences that are similar to mine and they embrace it. To each his own.

The word "rigged" in your original comment implied dishonesty on my part. I just wanted to clarify that the JS code used in the microbench was Ryan Dahl's, and mine was just a port to Go. I was merely giving Go the same task that he did.

rartichokeOP12y ago

I did like it, what I didn't like was solving common web app related issues that were solved on other platforms years ago. That's what completely killed my urge to consider Go.

I don't want to spend most of my time solving boring issues. I want to spend most of my time writing features for apps I make. Being productive makes me happy but everyone has different happiness triggers I suppose.

I see performance as a somewhat solved problem in 99.999% of the cases so to me a language is not even worth looking at anymore if that's all it offers. I'm not fortunate to be involved in the other 0.001% where easy to do caching might not be enough.

I didn't mean to imply you were dishonest. I just wanted to point out that sending out 1MB responses is kind of silly.

It took me like 2.5 years of messing around to finally realize all I care about is being able to take an idea and turn it into working code that's maintainable and scales good enough for the time being.

drsintoma12y ago

may I ask, what exactly did you have to re-invent? It's true that Go is very young and so are the libreries, and that only recently has started to be seen as web language. But my experience is that the most common problems for web are solved with things like Revel. Is true that is a bit feature basic and there are not that many other options, but I wouldn't consider it insufficient.

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frio12y ago

I like Go the language; I dislike Go the platform (currently). What's there is great, but there's not enough of it. It's a great 1.0 release: stable, fast, but sparse.

Luckily, Go has a decent head of steam behind it, so when I revisit it in a few years that should be a solved problem ;).

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