Comment by gf000
1 day ago
> And there still barely is - the only real competitor that sits in a similar space is Java with the new virtual threads
Which Google uses far more commonly than Go, still to this day.
1 day ago
> And there still barely is - the only real competitor that sits in a similar space is Java with the new virtual threads
Which Google uses far more commonly than Go, still to this day.
Well Google isn't really making a ton of new (successful) services these days, so the potential to introduce a new language is quite small unfortunately :). Plus, Go lacks one quite important thing which is ability to do an equivalent of HotSwap in the live service, which is really useful for debugging large complex applications without shutting them down.
Google is 100% writing a whole load of new services, and Go is 13 years old (even older within Google), so it surely has had ample opportunities to take.
As for hot swap, I haven't heard it being used for production, that's mostly for faster development cycles - though I could be wrong. Generally it is safer to bring up the new version, direct requests over, and shut down the old version. It's problematic to just hot swap classes, e.g. if you were to add a new field to one of your classes, how would old instances that lack it behave?
HotSwap is really useful to be able to make small adjustments, e.g. to add a logging statement somewhere to test your hypothesis. It's probably not safe to use to change the behaviour significantly, certainly not in production :)