tinderliker

Hi HN,

I am fairly versatile with both Django and Go, and built web applications using both for other people, but I am permanently crippled in the decision to pick one for my own project.

Django is so easy to build something and deploy, but I am not happy with its performance on a single box, and also all the crap it comes along with.

I love writing Go code and its performance, but I don't like the amount of time it takes to develop something in Go which can be done in a minute in Django (especially the DB related stuff. It is so easy with Django, but historically been crippled with performance problems)

I frequently see myself rewriting APIs from Django to Go and never shipping something by this handicap.

I believe this is because of not able to decide on tradeoffs. Can someone who has used both help me decide which one to pick?

TIA

Hey HN,

I work in one of the big 4 tech companies, and I make reasonable money. However, I have this problem that whenever I hear about another company that pays more for the same role, or another person who get paid more, my day is usually ruined. I get unhappy and feel like a failure.

I understand this is not a healthy way, and this is not the correct way to think about life, but I am not able to help it.

Most commonly people tell me to enjoy work, but most work is basically crap at any of the big four - so I feel like I should aim for money instead.

Does anyone else feel like this? How do you get over this nonsense, and be happy with pay instead?

Was there any change from the time New York Times article was published? And does the pay + stock compensate for the bad work culture (if there is?)

I know the typical answer is "Whatever you know", but assuming a person has no prior programming background, which language would you suggest? PG seems to suggest Lisp (Clojure)? Javascript? Go? Python?