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Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang

In the two years since I've posted I want off Mr Golang's Wild Ride , it's made the rounds time and time again, on Reddit, on Lobste.rs, on HackerNews, and elsewhere. And every...

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Hasnain says:

The author's prior article on golang issues went viral this week (to much outrage - again) so they wrote a follow up. I am not an expert in Go (haven't written much if at all) but thought this was a reasonable and enlightening take.

"We've reached the fifth stage of grief: acceptance.

Fine. It may well be that Go is not adequate for production services unless your shop is literally made up of Go experts (Tailscale) or you have infinite money to spend on engineering costs (Google).

But surely there's still a place for it."

Posted on 2022-04-29T22:11:59+0000