Readit Newslikeabbas commented on Problems with Go channels (2016) jtolio.com/2016/03/go-cha... · Posted by u/mpweiher
likeabbas commented on Problems with Go channels (2016) jtolio.com/2016/03/go-cha... · Posted by u/mpweiher
go can ship as a static exe, can't be simpler to deploy, until java has this built-in, I'll stick with go for my cross platform choice
If you're building tools that need to be deployed to machines, Go/Rust with their static binaries make a lot of sense. But for backend web services, it's hard not to go with Java imo.
fwiw - My favorite language is Rust, but Async Rust has ruined it for me.
likeabbas commented on Problems with Go channels (2016) jtolio.com/2016/03/go-cha... · Posted by u/mpweiher
And if you want even cleaner and simpler syntax, while getting the benefits of the JVM, then Kotlin is a nice "step up" from there!
My company is trying to force Kotlin as the default, but I just prefer modern Java tbh. Kotlin is a very nice language, and I'd be fine with writing it, but modern Java just seems like it has "caught up" and even surpassed Kotlin in some features lately.
likeabbas commented on Problems with Go channels (2016) jtolio.com/2016/03/go-cha... · Posted by u/mpweiher
Go user for ten years and I don’t know what happened, but this year I hit some internal threshold with the garbage type system, tedious data structures, and incessant error checking being 38% of the LoC. I’m hesitant to even admit what language I’m considering a full pivot to.
Java 21 is pretty damn nice, 25 will be even nicer.
For your own application code, you don't have to use exceptions you can write custom Result objects and force callers to pattern match on the types (and you can always wrap library/std exceptions in that result type).
Structured Concurrency looks like a banger of a feature - it's what CompletableFuture should've been.
VirtualThreads still needs a few more years for most production cases imo, but once it's there, I truly don't see a point to choose Go over Java for backend web services.
likeabbas commented on Ask HN: Resources for general purpose GPU development on Apple's M* chips? · Posted by u/thinking_banana
likeabbas commented on Congress hears testimony on aliens theregister.com/2024/11/1... · Posted by u/rbanffy
You disagree with GP, and then to “back up” your disagreement you quote a passage that directly confirms GPs statement. What’s going on?
What part of the passage confirms GP's (who's GP?) statement? Again, I can't paste the entire 64 page bill in a hacker news comment. You have to do some effort to read the bill to figure out what they're talking about.
likeabbas commented on Congress hears testimony on aliens theregister.com/2024/11/1... · Posted by u/rbanffy
likeabbas commented on Congress hears testimony on aliens theregister.com/2024/11/1... · Posted by u/rbanffy
You seem to assume that only you is interested in aliens.
Let me remind you that many of us grew up with The X Files.
Of course we paid attention. We just seem to be less gullible.
Why do you assume I'm gullible? just because I'm a bit more open-minded than you?
likeabbas commented on Congress hears testimony on aliens theregister.com/2024/11/1... · Posted by u/rbanffy
idk why you are getting downvoted. Schumer's full UAP Disclosure Act (unfortunately most of it was amended away) is groundbreaking legislation IMO.
It's one of the most comprehensive pieces of legislation in the last decade, and people just completely ignored it.
I do love Rust a lot as well but most of the time I am finding myself using either Elixir or Golang.