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https://thenewstack.io/golang-co-creator-rob-pike-what-go-got-right-and-wrong/ tl;dr; spoiler alert: it got nothing wrong https://evrone.com/blog/rob-pike-interview practically the whole internet cloud infrastructure is built in #golang a lot of poorly informed #bitcoin folk think that just because asshats like roasbeef and his btcd/lnd repositories are shit (hey, he helped develop #lightningnetwork but honestly he is a pretty bad Go programmer, his stuff reads like C++) that this somehow has something to do with what the language is about... or that it's primarily sponsored by Google no, #golang is not just these things, and it was actually the first language system to do many of the things that #rust programmers makes their system so great, the build system of cargo was modeled after the #golang build system and indeed the whole industry is chattering on most discussion venues like #golang is some stupid silly language with a goofy mascot but docker, kubernetes, and half of the cloud management based systems are written in #golang and there is no better language in existence yet that does scalable, low latency server code with as low a total cost in time and development and is as easy for new devs to adopt and run with
