Hacker Timesnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

There are multiple lengthy writeups on the good and bad of Go that have made it to the HN front page multiple times over the past 5+ years. The little search bar at the bottom HN works pretty well, sometimes better than Google due to HN's habit of promoting interesting and well written blog posts, podcasts, and talks about technical subjects.


So you don’t have actual arguments?

On my end I love Go executables because I know they’re fast, self contained with very little dynamic linking or dependencies, and I know I can (and do!) contribute easily.

I try to avoid Python tools because they depend too much on the installed Python version (even with 3+ I’ve had incompatibility issues), are generally slow (I use autojump because it’s best in class IMO compared to zoxide, z, or jump, but it’s slow as a cow), and sometimes suffer from bad error handling (the few Python tools I use like awscli routinely give me Python stack traces whereas Go or Rust tools rarely, if ever, fail that badly)

Now that you have an example, what are your arguments against Go tools?




Consider applying for YC's Summer 2026 batch! Applications are open till May 4

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: