In the two years since I've posted I want off Mr Golang's Wild
Ride , it's made the rounds time and
time again, on Reddit, on Lobste.rs, on HackerNews, and elsewhere. And every...
I think, and this is by no means intended to be disrespectful, golang attracts a lot of programmers that do not want to learn a lot of things. They just want to write something down and it be fast, they don’t mind edgecases, security bugs, performance bottlenecks and all that stuff. A JS dev that was called “scriptkiddie” some years ago might now be a go developer.
And there’s nothing wrong with that, IMO… What bugs me all the time though is that they claim that golang is the superior language and should be used for allthethings^tm. It should definitively not.
On the other hand, I don’t claim that Rust should be used for all the things (I sometimes claim for the memes, to be honest, but that’s not too serious). It definitively has a learning curve and sometimes writing down your 50 LOC of Ruby/Python/Bash might be a better choice. But (as the tagline once was), Rust is good when it matters. And it matters often (IMO).
I think, and this is by no means intended to be disrespectful, golang attracts a lot of programmers that do not want to learn a lot of things. They just want to write something down and it be fast, they don’t mind edgecases, security bugs, performance bottlenecks and all that stuff. A JS dev that was called “scriptkiddie” some years ago might now be a go developer.
And there’s nothing wrong with that, IMO… What bugs me all the time though is that they claim that golang is the superior language and should be used for allthethings^tm. It should definitively not.
On the other hand, I don’t claim that Rust should be used for all the things (I sometimes claim for the memes, to be honest, but that’s not too serious). It definitively has a learning curve and sometimes writing down your 50 LOC of Ruby/Python/Bash might be a better choice. But (as the tagline once was), Rust is good when it matters. And it matters often (IMO).