Other than angular, what's an example of a developer ecosystem Google created on purpose very successfully relative to its peers.
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@golang's used by docker which took over the world, most people deploy their stuff on docker or kubernetes now. Go code runs on every server -
So does bash, Perl, etc. Golang is immortal, but short of aspirations. More niche than originally desired.
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@golang was originally envisioned as a systems level language, like C. Relative to that aspiration I'd say it's doing great. -
can confirm this from original announcement: "Go is a great language for systems programming and writing servers"https://opensource.googleblog.com/2009/11/hey-ho-lets-go.html …
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that's way more general than the niche it landed in. Also even go adherents stopped calling it a "systems programming language"
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not the writing servers part though.
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I don't think Go is a language for writing services. It's a language for orchestrating containers and writing microservices.
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I don't think TypeScript is relative to this area of peers. Golang is extremely popular for native apps/services (more than I wish).
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Yeah I agree that golang is popular in the container space and in some cases for microservices. But like... Haskell has more SO questions
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I know golang is *perceived* to be very popular.
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In practice golang has gotten very very niche.pic.twitter.com/IBQefLgWWg
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If you're only looking for examples on the level of Java-popular you're only going to find 1 or 2 for *any* company. Lightning in a bottle.
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Hm I don't think so. I consider small projects like Ember or Julia to have successful ecosystems, and golang to be on the cusp.
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Wait what? Are there any programs that I use that are written in Swift?
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If you use an iPhone or OSX, yes, assuredly.
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So no. Which is not the case for Google and go, or MS and typescript.
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That's a pretty weird success metric. I think golang *wanted* to be very general purpose and ended up very niche.
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Also I would say Apple also has trouble making successful software ecosystems. They just have more leverage.
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