HAhardwaresofton·Nov 8, 2018
This is something I've noticed recently -- more and more researchers are starting to write reference implementation code for networking and distributed systems in Golang. In my own head, it makes sense -- golang is simple to read if not verbose, doesn't require crazy formatting, has excellent standard library support, and has relatively painless concurrency, and can be run as a scripting language. No it's not as easy to get started with as Python, Ruby or Perl, but only one of those has easy-to-spawn native threads, nevermind lightweight coroutines (and the one with native threads encourages illegible code).
If you're not doing type theory work or very specific exploration in a specific field, I don't know another language that is so easy to get up and running with. On top of all this go's performance is pretty great/consistent as well, J
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S is the only other scripting language that comes close generally, but then you have to submit to the event loop.
I've always thought one of Go's true killer features is how hard it makes cleverness.
I'm starting to seriously think Go's popularity is going to continue shooting up. As I always note I think Go will supplant Java as the incumbent in the enterprise software in one or two decades max.
[EDIT] - Forgot to include the most recent example that made me think this: WPaxos(AKA WAN Paxos)[0] and the included github repo[1]. To be fair CASPaxos[2] included gryadka[3] which is in JS.
[0]: https://cse.buffalo.edu/tech-reports/2017-03.pdf
[1]: https://github.com/ailidani/paxi
[2]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.07000
[3]: https://github.com/gryadka/js