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by VMtest 1517 days ago
> At what cost? How many man-hours did it take? How many bugs could have been avoided? How much faster could it be done with other languages? Most importantly: if Google stops backing its development, who else could replace it?

Same question can be asked when Rust or C/C++ are being used to write k8s

> And if you did see anyone using that argument, we probably would say that this is just a lie they tell themselves to keep using C.

A bad programmer is a bad programmer. If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail

People who did read this article should be aware of the shortcomings of Golang by now, and some of them will still be using it, and I am very sure of that