On Saturday, 20 December 2014 at 13:56:01 UTC, ponce wrote:
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.
That is why I seldom buy into hype driven development.
Usually on our teams if a specific technology wasn't explicitly
requested by the customer, whoever is bringing it in has to
answer what is the business value to the customer.
