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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: 0s | source
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yodon ◴[18 Feb 25 23:17 UTC] No.43096382[source]▶
Has anybody spotted a similar story of switching from C# to go?

As someone who is very fond of C#, I'm definitely curious what I'm missing out on.

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WuxiFingerHold ◴[19 Feb 25 12:39 UTC] No.43101407[source]▶
I've used C# years ago, then some Go for simple web services and CLIs and now I'm back at C# for those applications. You're missing out nothing if you're already familiar with C#. Go's biggest advantage is that it's much simper to learn. The whole experience feels much more lightweight and straight forward. Very easy to navigate the ecosystem.

Other than that, modern C# and .NET has the edge over Go almost everywhere. Good examples are obviously LINQ, null safety, extension methods, the type system in general, on the .NET side Generic Host (.NET standard solution for DI, config and logging for all kind of apps), Minimal API, EF Core, and performance. Memory usage for AOT is also very low, Go might have the edge here.

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1. mattgreenrocks ◴[19 Feb 25 13:26 UTC] No.43101894[source]▶
Currently learning ASP.NET Core, seems very well put together with quality first-party libraries. I miss Kotlin, but I suspect ASP.NET Core and Blazor SSR makes up for that.

Particularly excited by the fact that Blazor SSR lets you write server-side components. So I can have a statically typed language that lets me think about the UI in terms of components, and a DI container on hand for when I want to break business logic out into services. Love the flexibility all of those things coming together affords. EF Core seems really promising for persistence so far, though I need to play with it more.

Playing with their Identity framework last night I was able to get up and running despite being new to the ecosystem. Very good sign, most of the time integrating auth as a newcomer to a lot of languages ends up being way more than 2 hours worth of work.