>the fuck is that supposed to mean. PHP is like the biggest web dev language in existence ever.
>How is Go "huge" if it is smaller than just about every other mainstream language out there?
Can you read? Can you comprehend what you are reading?
It just works: the language
Carter Gonzalez
Angel Mitchell
I think the point is that it's huge for a new lang, it has massive momentum behind it. Ruby or Java or C# had nothing like this.
Xavier Peterson
>Rust
>great
No it's pure autism
Robert Green
It's impossible to use anywhere, but it is a great language.
deprecated ass PHP 5.6 is destroying actually supported versions of PHP. Growth is what you measure, not legacy.
C# was huge it just was designed for a dying market.
Julian Scott
I didn't mean it was successful. I just meant that it had some success in terms of adoption.
It certainly isn't huge compared to languages like C, Python, or Java. But it has been used in a lot of major projects such as Docker, Kubernetes, InfluxDB, just about anything from Hashicorp, etc... I don't think it will ever get as big as say Java or Python, but I could see it having somewhat widespread adoption. I think people will realize it doesn't really offer much to warent using it over much more mature languages.
Ethan Edwards
It's good. It cherry picks many of the most utilitarian aspects of other languages and pairs it with an excellent standard library, the easiest cross-compilation I've ever encountered outside of Plan 9, the easiest package retrieval I've used, and reasonable compile times.
It's a workhorse and I don't mind that it doesn't have generics and has repetitive error checking, because of the aforementioned shit.
I'm just disappointed it can't be used in realtime applications where the guaranteed 10ms maximum GC latency is still too much, like audio with a small buffer.
Lucas Wright
>impossible to use anywhere
works fine on any recent linux distro
it's fine, its fucking fast too.
Owen Jenkins
C# was and still is bigger than Go.
Josiah Nelson
>Let's take the worst aspects of C, the worst possible implementation of OOP, Garbage Collection, Type safety that ends at containers and a shitty thread pool with tasks with a fancy name (Goroutines) that's implemented into the language for some reason and BAM, Go
Gee, I sure wonder why it sucks.
Chase Rivera
Garbage collection means Go is only competing with Java.