Anonymous
8/4/2025, 7:50:12 AM No.106134356
Golang is only useful for individual devs looking to make a quick throwaway CLI app or internet-sized giants. For the latter the conceit is those big corpos treat it as a simpler C replacement for writing everything in-house. It's intentionally simplistic and opinionated because at that scale everyone is a lowest common denominator coder (even if we refrain talking about the hordes of H1Bs they hire).
Enterprise languages with every battery imaginable included are too inflexible for those internet-sized companies, they break at the specific edge cases etc., there's generally too much friction in trying to adopt an existing instrument when you have the heft to just develop everything internally.
Mid-sized companies who should just leverage existing solutions but are instead migrating to Golang are being brainwashed and misled.
For an individual developer, it's just an instrument. If you know better/older languages writing something simple in Go should be a no-brainer. But don't buy into the hype and don't become a cultist on a corpo leash.
Enterprise languages with every battery imaginable included are too inflexible for those internet-sized companies, they break at the specific edge cases etc., there's generally too much friction in trying to adopt an existing instrument when you have the heft to just develop everything internally.
Mid-sized companies who should just leverage existing solutions but are instead migrating to Golang are being brainwashed and misled.
For an individual developer, it's just an instrument. If you know better/older languages writing something simple in Go should be a no-brainer. But don't buy into the hype and don't become a cultist on a corpo leash.
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