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by uka 3069 days ago
It is not even close to taking over. It entrenched itself in an interesting niche - and that's it.
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philipov 3069 days ago
Could you elaborate on how you would describe that niche? Cloud services?
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joatmon-snoo 3069 days ago
Not a Golang dev myself, but I'd characterize it as server-side applications with high concurrency demands.

Most use cases I see tend to deal with either (1) microservices or (2) modern virtualization solutions, e.g. Docker, Kubernetes. This isn't quite universal though: there are exceptions like CockroachDB and Container Linux.

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ex_amazon_sde 3069 days ago
Ex Amazon here. Most cloud automation across various large companies is written in C, sometimes C++, with plenty of glue code in higher level languages like Python.

Hyped up stuff like Docker & co are the few written in Go and often not mature and stable enough for enterprise.

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aphistic 3068 days ago
> Hyped up stuff like Docker & co are the few written in Go and often not mature and stable enough for enterprise.

Haha, you're funny!

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uka 3068 days ago
Mostly google cloud hosted high performance web services.
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