Initially I was taken back by the language, I felt we'd stepped back 15 years in language and design principles. I decried the lack of many of these features.
Today I feel more like the language has simply been misunderstood, and possibly because of its association with Google, wrongfully applied in places where it isn't the right fit.
It seems to been adopted, in many place as a fast system level alternative to higher level languages such as Kotlin or C#, when in actuality I think its niche is in providing a safer, more convenient alternative to C.
Great for smaller, performance critcal applications, or things that where the bundle size is important, such as operating system utilities, parts of the networking stack, small fast lambda functions, caching servers, etc. But not domain heavy application servers.
So with that in mind im not sure how I feel with GO current roadmap. Its now a language being adapted to be more suitable for applications I _feel_ it was never intended for.
Initially I was taken back by the language, I felt we'd stepped back 15 years in language and design principles. I decried the lack of many of these features.
Today I feel more like the language has simply been misunderstood, and possibly because of its association with Google, wrongfully applied in places where it isn't the right fit.
It seems to been adopted, in many place as a fast system level alternative to higher level languages such as Kotlin or C#, when in actuality I think its niche is in providing a safer, more convenient alternative to C.
Great for smaller, performance critcal applications, or things that where the bundle size is important, such as operating system utilities, parts of the networking stack, small fast lambda functions, caching servers, etc. But not domain heavy application servers.
So with that in mind im not sure how I feel with GO current roadmap. Its now a language being adapted to be more suitable for applications I _feel_ it was never intended for.