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by jweir 4074 days ago
I like Go, and I am replacing aspects of Rails apps with Go, but for a lot of web app uses, Rails is really, really good.

Hashicorp, who has a very high Go competence, migrated away from Go to Rails for their web service.

http://blog.gopheracademy.com/advent-2014/atlas/

> Once we decided to evaluate other technologies for our web service, we had a few choices. Based on having Rails experience and the maturity of that tooling we saw it as the most pragmatic option. As we began our initial port, we realized that over two weeks worth of work in Go had been replaced in just a few hours in Rails. We were sold.

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I commented above that I felt dirty taking the Rails for web applications, and Go for "Other" approach. But it was the best I had come up with. Thanks for the link - It was helpful and mirrors my experience.