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I've been using Go for 4 months now and I'm loving it.

The syntax is elegant, concurrencies consume an order of magnitude less in the memory stack and it has such a good performance benchmarking.

What excites me the most though is the TensorFlow wrapper for Go that Google has recently stated it's developing. It's a huge advance towards high-scale, real-time deep learning.

BTW, in a few days I'm giving an introductory workshop to backend development using Go, I'll talk about some of the examples mentioned for sure.

However, I know that Dropbox is one of the biggest Go users and it isn't in this success stories list. Anyone knows more about it?

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> However, I know that Dropbox is one of the biggest Go users and it isn't in this success stories list. Anyone knows more about it?

Maybe the go devs see them as traitors for using rust for their core components. :P They were having memory consumption issues with go, so I'm not sure that would be the best thing to add to a list of success stories.

[1]: https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/06/lossless-compression-... [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11283685

I wonder what languages you are comparing it to. I wouldn't personally call Go's syntax elegant or its performance good, but it's all relative. Wrappers for C++ libraries are likewise hardly exciting given the ease of creating them for almost any language.

> However, I know that Dropbox is one of the biggest Go users and it isn't in this success stories list. Anyone knows more about it?

they still use go for a lot of things, rust for a niche, which is why i made the other comment in this thread: we need to see more rust success stories (and nim, and elixir, and julia, and R, et cetera) because we need to be able to evaluate the best tool for a particular task. at this point everybody worth their salt in programming is a polyglot. "oh yah, i write everything in Go [but my html templates are all javascript]".

anyway, here's dropbox on go:

https://twitter.com/jamwt/status/629727590782099456

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