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HARD truths before switching to Go

2025-05-22 Science & Technology
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Top Comments (10)

@aDaily1222 2025-05-22

If Go is bad, Come has to be good. It's science

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@kronik907 2025-05-22

"Lower case types are capitalism's fault" is such an underrated line from this.

787 4 replies
@productgremlin 2025-05-22

Go Hard or Go Home.

656 14 replies
@dinohorseaborus 2025-05-22

For those asking about why Typescript chose Go, it was said in an interview that they wanted the transition to be as seamless as possible, so they needed a garbage collected language (as that's how they built the original compiler) which disqualified rust. That is a massive oversimplification of their decision making process I'm sure, but a pretty good summary

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@Mun__chies 2025-05-22

Just made my first go script to help launch our application… it was… kinda nice. Easy to slap on code like python, but statically typed

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@HenriqueAssunção-z7u 2025-05-22

Make private Just to create a getter and setter for everything, Java feelings

104 3 replies
@froazin 2025-06-06

10:16 My fav description of Golang is and ways will be "It's garbage collected C, for the 21st century."

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@SashoApostolovski 2025-05-24

I just realized I haven't used a while loop in years

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@EsparzaFed 2025-05-22

Do it! Follow your instincts. GO all in on Elixir 👏

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@MiklosGalicz 2025-05-26

When debuggind a high traffic production app at 3AM, I don't want to think... Verbose error handling is one of the best parts!

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