God i fucking love golang

"God I love fucking golang"

PS: What do you like about it?

And you should! :D

@Jilano first: the multiple return values. It's just a bliss to just return errors with the value. This way my actual return value is completely type safe. That brings me to the second thing: there are no union types (or whatever you call it, when a var can be a number or a string). Somehow this is a big deal which makes things pretty simple, no matter the size of the application.

goroutines. Didn't use them myself yet but boy what is that a fine way to do multitasking without producing a callback mess?

It creates a fucking binary. The thing coming out of there is fast, and you deploy one single file and you are ready to go. It's size is a bit crazy (got a good 14M with just some docker whiz and gizmo in my application) but I think that's no big deal, drive space is cheap these days isn't it. :D

It just feels good writing go code. When learning new languages, it often feels weird to actually write it after learning it. Not with go, it just feels really right somehow.

Why

@scout because

The ecosystem is also mature!
Love alice, Negroni etc for making micro service.
It’s a real breeze.
We’ve got to write a garbage collector for dead ws connections. With go routines it was easy as fuck ! Love it.