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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: 0.502s | 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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christophilus ◴[22 Aug 25 11:46 UTC] No.44983334[source]▶
I don’t buy this at all. I picked up Go because it has fast compilation speed, produces static binaries, can build useful things without a ton of dependencies, is relatively easy to maintain, and has good tooling baked in. I think this is why it gained adoption vs Dart or whatever other corporate-backed languages I’m forgetting.
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1. theshrike79 ◴[22 Aug 25 12:11 UTC] No.44983553[source]▶
80% of what programmers write is API glue.

Go _excels_ at API glue. Get JSON as string, marshal it to a struct, apply business logic, send JSON to a different API.

Everything for that is built in to the standard library and by default performant up to levels where you really don't need to worry about it before your API glue SaaS is making actual money.