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Go is still not good

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644 points ustad | 2 comments | 22 Aug 25 09:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.465s | 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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pydry ◴[22 Aug 25 11:52 UTC] No.44983391[source]▶
I tried out one project because of these attributes and then scrapped it fairly quickly in favor of rust. Not enough type safety, too much verbosity. Too much fucking "if err != nil".

The language sits in an awkward space between rust and python where one of them would almost always be a better choice.

But, google rose colored specs...

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christophilus ◴[22 Aug 25 12:22 UTC] No.44983644[source]▶
I’m almost with you. If there was a language with a fast compiler, excellent tooling, a robust standard library, static binaries, and an F#-like type system, I’d never use anything else.

Rust simply doesn’t cut it for me. I’m hoping Roc might become this, but I’m not holding my breath.

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1. pydry ◴[22 Aug 25 13:37 UTC] No.44984539[source]▶
Compiler could be faster, I guess but apart from that Rust has all of those things.
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2. christophilus ◴[22 Aug 25 15:47 UTC] No.44986021[source]▶
I find Rust's stdlib to be lacking vs Go, and so the average Rust project has a lot of dependencies. To me, Rust feels like the systems-programming equivalent to Node + NPM. Also, the compilation speed was really painful last time I used it. I'm used to the speed of Zig, Hare, Go, Bun. Rust makes me want to jab myself in the eye with a spork.