Comment by Xeoncross
3 years ago
People give push back when I tell them they should drop PHP for Go or Python for Rust.
It doesn't matter that it would be better for everyone and the planet. It's a prisoners dilemma. I only get rewarded and promoted for shipping stuff and meeting deadlines even if the products are slow.
Thank God for open source. Programmers produce amazing libraries, frameworks, languages and systems when business demands and salary is out of the picture.
Meanwhile some people have been using C# and Java for decades which perform better than Go on many benchmarks and their software is still slow as shit.
I was a little skeptical of this claim, so I looked it up. C# winning happens in a handful of cases, but it's extremely rare. Go practically always wins on memory usage, even if it doesn't win the cpu benchmark.
See: https://programming-language-benchmarks.vercel.app/go-vs-csh...
I tried finding more, but most benchmarks I could find were of poor quality.
Java and C# tend to be used for big, hairy, old projects. Thats far less common with Go.