On Monday, December 19, 2016 at 5:03:43 AM UTC-8, Tieson Molly wrote: > > What arguments or factors have contributed to your company adopting Go? >
My company does enough different kinds of work that the question is too broad. To some, "adoption" might imply broad usage. In practice, usage evolves over time, and use of Go is slowly increasing over time. > > Many businesses see switching to a new language or even using a new > language side by side with their existing language choice as a business > risk. > My company primarily used to use Java. In recent years we've explored options other than Java for two reasons that I can tell, because of the pressure Oracle has started putting on the Java ecosystem, and because there are many more viable options to Java than their used to be. We looked at other JVM languages. Besides the fact that they didn't get rid of the potential licensing issues from Oracle, they also implied a lot of investment in learning new syntax and programming languages, but without any significant change in the runtime profile of the resulting programs. Seems like a very expensive effort for minimal gain. That meant exploring the non-JVM languages. D, Rust, Go, Javascript, Python.... Go is, well, ... practical and effective in many cases. Eric. > > Best regards, > > Ty > > > -- 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.
