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One year after switching from Java to Go

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257 points pmig | 1 comments | 18 Feb 25 16:55 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | source
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heluser ◴[18 Feb 25 23:08 UTC] No.43096311[source]▶
I long for a deep article about the same topic. The real, core difference between Java and Go for backend is declarative vs imperative coding styles.

This one, as typical for such articles, repeats typical secondary talking points and even makes similar mistakes. For example it conflates the concept of DI with specifics of implementation in some frameworks.

Yes there are older Java frameworks that do runtime magic. But both new Java apps and well designed Go services use compile time dependency injection as a way of achieving dependency inversion.

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1. golly_ned ◴[19 Feb 25 05:43 UTC] No.43098968[source]▶
Write that article then. Don’t badmouth the writer’s firsthand (evidently not secondary) experience over the course of a year since they didn’t express your idiosyncratic view that Java is a Declarative Language, which is very different from a data-centric language, which itself is a term from the clojure/scala enthusiasm about functional programming around Java 8.