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Hah, yeah, we have a number of microservices implemented with golang. As 'clunky' as the language can feel sometimes the tooling is first class.


Absolutely! I love how fast it is and how easy it is to write stuff real fast. Not a lot of footguns, except the pointer-for-loop thing afaik. It does feel clunky and quite manual sometimes!


The whole language is a footgun..


Casual Go user here, could you elaborate?


I wouldn't say it rises to the level of 'footgun' but golang's error handling feels kind of janky coming from other languages.




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