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0 pointspjmlp5y ago0 comments

Because of cargo cult of "must be web scale" and people that want to pump up their CVs to work at a FAANG.

All those projects are related to Docker and k8s, so naturally get written in Go.

Thankfully it is also possible to use Rust, C++, Java and .NET with them without writing a single line of Go.

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DLA5y ago

You could write any program in any non-toy language, of course. This does not make every language a good choice for a given problem.

Here’s some pretty detailed notes from Google about one high volume project they rewrote from C++ to Go.

https://talks.golang.org/2013/oscon-dl.slide#1

Use whatever language you like. Just because you like X and someone else likes Y does not invalidate either language.

And to you totally off base comment about cargo cult of web scale and ‘pump up their CVs’ .... in my case I happen to work with huge data (petabytes) so yeah it matters and has nothing to do with FAANG. In this context I have found Go to be an insanely great tool—-productive, reliable, maintainable, multi-core, networked and fast. Thankfully I will never have to write a line on .NET.

pjmlpOP5y ago

Ah the rewrite that was driven by the Go team itself as a means to prove a point.

Apparently the Android team did not adopt gomobile the same way.

DLA5y ago

Yes and they are very clear about that. What matters is the end result. Shorter, simpler, higher perf code that solved a practical problem, at scale. There's no secret that Brad is a heavy for the Go team. The point is about one way to pragmatically solve a problem and ship code. That's all.

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0 pointspjmlp5y ago0 comments

Because of cargo cult of "must be web scale" and people that want to pump up their CVs to work at a FAANG.

All those projects are related to Docker and k8s, so naturally get written in Go.

Thankfully it is also possible to use Rust, C++, Java and .NET with them without writing a single line of Go.

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DLA5y ago

You could write any program in any non-toy language, of course. This does not make every language a good choice for a given problem.

Here’s some pretty detailed notes from Google about one high volume project they rewrote from C++ to Go.

https://talks.golang.org/2013/oscon-dl.slide#1

Use whatever language you like. Just because you like X and someone else likes Y does not invalidate either language.

pjmlpOP5y ago

Ah the rewrite that was driven by the Go team itself as a means to prove a point.

Apparently the Android team did not adopt gomobile the same way.

DLA5y ago

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