> Like I said, around 2010 even payment (e.g. the fundamental opposite of where a dynamic type system makes any sense)
What does a type system have to do with payments? The implementation of numeric types matters more, you can use a statically typed language but if you're using plain floats for a financial app you're going to have a rough time. Also a type system doesn't prevent math errors.
Ruby is also strongly typed so it's not like you can just mix up numeric types, plus has numeric types (BigDecimal) that are suitable for financial calculations (to be fair pretty much all languages do, even JS).
> Companies are building the same sorts of solutions in Go today that they built in Ruby in 2009. Loads of web applications are being built in Go.
Is there a single example on the level of Stripe, AirBnb, TripAdvisor, Shopify, etc...? Even early stage?
I don't see any Go equivalent to Rails, Django or Laravel. Most Go applications seem to be either back-end micro-services and it seems to mostly be in use in larger organisations. I have never seen a startup with <5 people using Go although I'll admit to have not looked that hard.
> That's like the first 0.05% of a product.
Is it? Tons of startups started without much more.
What does a type system have to do with payments? The implementation of numeric types matters more, you can use a statically typed language but if you're using plain floats for a financial app you're going to have a rough time. Also a type system doesn't prevent math errors.
Ruby is also strongly typed so it's not like you can just mix up numeric types, plus has numeric types (BigDecimal) that are suitable for financial calculations (to be fair pretty much all languages do, even JS).
> Companies are building the same sorts of solutions in Go today that they built in Ruby in 2009. Loads of web applications are being built in Go.
Is there a single example on the level of Stripe, AirBnb, TripAdvisor, Shopify, etc...? Even early stage?
I don't see any Go equivalent to Rails, Django or Laravel. Most Go applications seem to be either back-end micro-services and it seems to mostly be in use in larger organisations. I have never seen a startup with <5 people using Go although I'll admit to have not looked that hard.
> That's like the first 0.05% of a product.
Is it? Tons of startups started without much more.