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Go is still not good

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644 points ustad | 1 comments | 22 Aug 25 09:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.212s | source
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figmert ◴[22 Aug 25 11:24 UTC] No.44983166[source]▶
Has Go become the new PHP? Every now and then I see an article complaining about Go's shortcomings.
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pydry ◴[22 Aug 25 11:33 UTC] No.44983234[source]▶
Go is a pretty good example of how mediocre technology that would never have taken off on its own merits benefits from the rose tinted spectacles that get applied when FAANG starts a project.
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1. throwawayxcmz ◴[22 Aug 25 11:55 UTC] No.44983421[source]▶
Exactly.

The other jarring example of this kind of deferring logical thinking to big corps was people defending Apple's soldering of memory and ssd, specially so on this site, until some Chinese lad proved that all the imagined issues for why Apple had to do such and such was bs post hoc rationalisation.

The same goes with Go, but if you spend enough time, every little while you see the disillusionment of some hardcore fans, even from the Go's core team, and they start asking questions but always start with things like "I know this is Go and holy reasons exists and I am doing a sin to question but why X or Y". It is comedy.