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by throwaway894345
2242 days ago
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I feel like "Go has become the language of cloud infrastructure" is a bit of an inflammatory headline for this forum--I'm sure there are many cloud infrastructure components which aren't written in Go. The ones I think of tend to be AWS services that are written in Java or a handful of odds-and-ends things in Rust like AWS's Firecracker or some of CloudFlare's high performance networking systems. But especially in the open source world, there seems to be a lot of cloud infrastructure written in Go, and it seems to be accelerating. So in a sense I can understand saying "Go is the language of cloud infrastructure", but that framing seems unlikely to yield any interesting conversation. > What about ALL the other components NOT written in Go? Out of curiosity, which components are you thinking about? |
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I could start listing off OS kernels, and then I'll move on to device drivers and hypervisors.
"The Cloud" is enabled by the fact we can efficiently separate applications and users running on the same hardware. The software which ultimately enables this is not written in Go... or Rust... or C++... or any other "hyped" language, but it is still an essential part of any cloud service.