Golang is IMO the best applications language. Most of my criticisms of it would be that it makes some systemsy things clunky, and because of garbage collection it just isn’t ideal for some systemsy stuff.
I personally hate the empty interface and definition shadowing of Go but that could be just me not “getting it”. Fortunately at work we don’t use that too often
I think most of the criticism is from people like me coming from C++. I am continually baffled that people write web backends in Python and Node at all, to me they seem so inappropriate that criticizing them would be a waste of time. I would consider Go to be much much better overall, and thus worthy of actual criticism
> I think most of the criticism is from people like me coming from C++. I am continually baffled that people write web backends in Python and Node at all, to me they seem so inappropriate that criticizing them would be a waste of time
Care to elaborate? I'm curious what's wrong with either for web backends
I personally hate the empty interface and definition shadowing of Go but that could be just me not “getting it”. Fortunately at work we don’t use that too often
I think most of the criticism is from people like me coming from C++. I am continually baffled that people write web backends in Python and Node at all, to me they seem so inappropriate that criticizing them would be a waste of time. I would consider Go to be much much better overall, and thus worthy of actual criticism