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by james305 1826 days ago
Go seems to be a favorite language to hate, and yet, there's a lot of awesome software in the world because of it. It's simply and lack of features was intentional; not a design flaw. It was built by some of the premier computer scientists of our age not for lacking of knowledge of modern language features but intentionally avoiding complexity.

Choose Rust and C++ for building your next OS, but Go is great when I need to build a web service that's fast enough and hire a team that may not know the language walking in the door but can be productive quickly.
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pjmlp 1826 days ago
Actually some people actually chose Go instead, to prove a point,

https://www.f-secure.com/en/consulting/foundry/usb-armory

https://labs.f-secure.com/blog/tamago/

> Our work focuses in supporting free standing Go applications that can be coded as usual, while running on bare metal hardware and without an underlying OS.

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