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by rollcat 1335 days ago
In the end, it turned out to be more of a challenge than a problem, and resulted in improving the Go toolchain for everyone - bringing Go closer to being universally viable for this type of work.

Interesting journey, and a solution that benefits the broader community, not just the authors. It's a win-win in my book.

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Just like Facebook betting in PHP ended up with Hippo and Hack.

Yet Facebook has learned it wasn't the best way of spending resources and nowadays most of their backend infrastructure is using C++, Java and whatever.