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Being 100% honest, the first thing it came to my mind after reading the title was "Why?".

And now I still don't know why.

Maybe I'm dead wrong but for me this is yet another case of pure tech fashionismo.

My personal motivation for rewriting some of my old PHP projects (albeit hobby projects at best) to Go is A) willingness to maintain PHP (which is almost nil) and B) rewriting programs can help discover bugs and re-understanding your programs.

But that's for small hobby projects, where the developer team is usually just me. For a large project, there should be some serious advantages to Go over PHP in their use cases. Don't get me wrong, I think Go is a better language to write websites in than PHP, but I am also a pragmatist.

There is a lot of reasons to choose Go over PHP for new project (static typing, better scaling because of smaller memory footprint of each request and so on). But for existing project all is not so simple. But after reading their post I understand it as they just got tired because of code mess, so rewrite was only way to clean things up. Only thing I don't understand is why they didn't remove PHP at all.

HDD (Hype Driven Development)

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