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by unfocussed_mike 1579 days ago
> Once I realized that its sweet spot is large-ish services that you want closer to the metal than Java but for which would be silly to go as low level as C++, Go fans started making a whole lot more sense to me.

Yep. I struggled and then I realised I could efficiently convert a complex shell pipe with a set of frustrating-to-the-customer prerequisites into a single, easily compiled cross-platform binary, and that it was really like Modula-2 and Occam to do it.

That's the point I became a fan.