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by shadowmint 4294 days ago
I'm not the greatest fan of Go; the pain points of api weirdness and generics are too irritating for me.

...but you've got to admit: look at the graph. That's an exponential increase in people using go to access the service.

If you're a service based company you can't just ignore the people who use your service.

If people are using go? Provide a go library.

If you see an exponential curve of people accessing it using lua, write a lua library.

It's pretty obviously the right thing for them to do.

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The graph has no numbers.
Developers & managers at Stripe decided that Go was being used often enough to spend precious dev time writing an official library which will have to be supported from here on. They wouldn't do that if the numbers didn't justify it.
That does not justify a graph with no numbers.