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Google Go Capturing Developer Interest

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the fear-the-behemoth dept.

angry tapir writes with news that Google Go seems to be cutting a wide swath through the programming community in just a short time since its early, experimental release. While Google insists that Go is still a work in progress (like so many of their offerings), many developers are so intrigued by the feature set that they are already implementing many noncritical applications with it. What experiences, good or bad, have you had with Google Go, and how likely is it to really take over?

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  1. Oh yeah, that ... by checkitout · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Until this article, I forgot it was ever announced.

    1. Re:Oh yeah, that ... by TheLink · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Me too. I'll wait for those captured developer(s) to develop more libraries for it first.

      A programming language that's "powerful" for the code you write is good for those uber-programmers.

      A programming language that's "powerful" for the code you no longer have to write is for those crappy programmers like me :).

      Many promising programming languages make it to the first category but never make it to the second.

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  2. "many developers are so intrigued" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Translation: Someone is drumming up some marketing astroturf for a single-company controlled proprietary language.

    1. Re:"many developers are so intrigued" by FlyingBishop · · Score: 5, Insightful

      That's inevitable. It's certainly better than write everywhere, test everywhere.

  3. Bad infomercial by captaindomon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This summary reads like a bad infomercial. "How likely is it to really take over?" not likely at all, and nobody would ask that question unless they worked for Google Marketing.

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  4. Eh? by thePowerOfGrayskull · · Score: 5, Insightful

    angry tapir writes with news that Google Go seems to be cutting a wide swath through the programming community

    He may write that, but that's not what the article says:

    While Go is still a work in progress, some developers are so encouraged by its features and design that they have started using it to build noncritical application

    What experiences, good or bad, have you had with Google Go, and how likely is it to really take over?

    Um, take over what? Is this a serious question? The answer here is "never" -- for the same reason that no single language will ever "take over" the software development landscape. There is no one tool fit for every job.