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Choose peace, choose performance, choose Go (sopuli.xyz)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Outshining JS in the backend is not an achievement.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Go is like the kid who gets held back for a year every year in school, but feels very proud every time he manages to beat up a fellow performance kindergartner, like JS or Python.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I like GoLang and loath JavaScript, but don't complain about Node pulling in 42 external libraries when GoLang is pulling in 32 external libraries (and using an additional 10 bundled with the compiler).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I like Go, but I also like only having to write Typescript for everything. Performance is not really a problem when 99% of web applications are just networking plumbing with simple business logic over a data store. If you really need performance, split it into a dedicated service written in C, C++, or Rust that does that one critical thing really fast.