Hi, if I may ask, what language do your company previously use before switch to Golang?
On Saturday, 31 March 2012 00:27:36 UTC+7, hcatlin wrote: > > Just thought I'd stop in and post something saying "hi" to the group. > I work at > Moovweb where we power some of the biggest e-commerce sites' mobile > experience > on our platform. Our platform has super strong demands on it and our > business is > growing at a nearly exponential rate. > > This past summer, I made the decision to switch all of our internal > software to Go > after being persuaded by our Senior Architect, Zhigang Chen. Of > course, knowing that Go > was beta and that the future of the company was being bet on Go was > (and is) amazingly > stressful. > > The library ecosystem was a little weak for our needs when we first > showed up so > we've since released a Regexp library called Rubex that makes regular > expressions > 2-3x faster, we've released Gokogiri which is a libxml wrapper library > for XML/HTML > parsing, and GVM the go version manager so that we can work with code > bases > on various versions of Go. > > A couple observations: > * New users/employees have learned Go very quickly. +20! > * Found out about breakage in 32-bit while in production. -10! > * Had to write our own libraries for some basic stuff. -5! > * Performs very well in production (only on 64-bit). +10! > > Man, so much to say... this bullet list might go on and on. > > I mostly just wanted to say that to us Go is not a hobbyist language. > Its a complex > build environment for us with dependency management and 5 full time > developers > writing code daily in it. > > We didn't build "some small part" of our platform in Go... its the > heart of our tech. > Our SDK is a compiled binary that we are packaging and sending out to > our > clients and integration partners. Our production system is handling > millions of pages > a day and millions of dollars of ecommerce a month. > > We've bet on Go big time... and will continue to bet on it. We will > continue to release > new code and we will continue to try and mature the community and tool > set so that > we can deal with real life issues. > > I'd love to hear if other companies are doing a similar thing. > > http://site.moovweb.com // public site > http://github.com/moovweb // public software repo > > -hampton (@hcatlin) > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
