On Friday, March 30, 2012 at 10:27:36 AM 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) > > > Hi Hampton,
I can assure you some big bets are being laid on Go as it has so much going for it. My thoughts are here (I'm product guy at ActiveState) and why we at ActiveState are "all-in" on Go: http://bit.ly/2gD4zxp Cheers, -JR -- 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.
