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Discussion on: GoLang, The Next Language to Learn for Developers

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Yaser Al-Najjar

Golang is great... but relatively!

I've tried to see in what context go can fit in the enterprise, and I realized Google invented this whole thing to avoid the ugly c / c++ maintenance (cuz Google needs the performance badly).

Wiki:

The designers cited their shared dislike of C++ as a primary motivation for designing a new language.

So yeah... before choosing this language (not just cuz of the hype), one should be sure whether it fits in a similar context for him.

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Edvin

Agreed. Totally about relativity, but I do think that it still great to at least learn Go at a basic level. I'm no longer really programming in C or C++, but learning those gave me a greater understanding of underlying algorithms and methodologies of more modern programming languages. I think Go can serve as that systems level language without being as difficult as C++ to understand. But, yes, at the enterprise level I totally agree that you shouldn't force a square peg into a circle hole.