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Has anyone outside Google used Go for any major commercial development? Are there any success stories out there to read up on?

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SoundCloud is using go lot: http://backstage.soundcloud.com/2012/07/go-at-soundcloud/

What about "disaster" stories or rants? I find the lack of rants on Go disturbing.

Just yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5707019 although you might not want to blame Go for this.

Here is a rant from me ... there is no effortless way to put mysql results into map [string]interface{} (equivalent to mysql_fetch_assoc) with built in typing. You get []byte and have to cast and scan everything yourself. Also go is hard to serach for in google and google groups where golang nuts are - they are as pleasurable for searching and finding info as a kick in the balls.

Apart from that the language is very solid and has some nice decisions made about it.

Someone could build decent ORM for Go. It's not really the language's job to build this.

Using mymysql the row object has typed getters.

row.Int(3) returns the 4th column as an int, row.Str(3) as a string, etc. Works fine for me.

You can find most Go-related things by searching for "golang".

That's a problem you only have to solve once.

There are a few reasoned criticisms from the Erlang camp about Go not copying some bits and pieces from Erlang that might have been worthwhile that are worth reading.

> reasoned criticisms from the Erlang camp about Go not copying some bits and pieces from Erlang that might have been worthwhile that are worth reading.

would you mind pointing those out please ? thank you !

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=Erlang+Go has a few. HN user "jerf" has a few good ones here and there:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5451651

There are others if you look for them.

My hope is that Go continues to improve in this direction as it seems like a good language.

thank you ! spent the last 45 minutes just reading the posts by 'jerf', and as he most humbly points out:

Go advocates desperately, desperately need to avoid the temptation to explain to themselves why Erlang isn't as good, because then they'll fail to learn the lessons that Erlang learned the easy way. There's a lot of ways to improve on Erlang, but let me tell you that despite those opportunities, Erlang as a language is one of the wisest languages around, you do not want to try to exceed it by starting from scratch. Learn from it, please, I want a better Erlang than Erlang, but talking yourself into how Go is already better than Erlang isn't going to get you there.

Not a disaster, but a word of caution:

https://www.braintreepayments.com/braintrust/gotchas-irritan...

This was just on hacker news: http://forums.thedailywtf.com/forums/t/27755.aspx

Although it's kinda debatable how much Go can be blamed about these failures.

Debatable? It's pretty obviously the developer didn't understand what version control does.

https://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/GoUsers

https://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/SuccessStories

The recent ones include Heka by Mozilla Services http://blog.mozilla.org/services/2013/04/30/introducing-heka... and Docker http://www.docker.io. Not sure if you'd consider these major and success.

Yes. CloudFlare is using Go internally for a lot of things: http://blog.cloudflare.com/go-at-cloudflare

Ubuntu build their DevOps solution JuJu with Go. https://juju.ubuntu.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKQLhGZVN4A

https://gist.github.com/ungerik/3731476

http://andrewwdeane.blogspot.de/2013/05/the-reliability-of-g...

Vivid Cortex is using Golang for their backend apparently: https://vividcortex.com/jobs/

From a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4025198

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