On Saturday, 20 December 2014 at 12:39:01 UTC, Bienlein wrote:
This way a lot of people out there have built server side systems with Go in record time. All the startups using Go are proof for this.
I would be wary of extrapolating best practices from what startups do. Startups succeed when they bet on the right market or propose something new and needed. I suspect technological choices play little part here, and that's why most companies using Go are startups: they could use almost anything and have the same outcome.
Successful rewrites from hyped language X to hyped language Y as pictured in blogs can also be misleading: almost all rewrites are rewrites of problematic systems in the first place, hence successful especially rewrites of young programs.
