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Go is my hammer, and everything is a nail


Always choose the right tool for the job? Nah. I know Go quite well, and I use it wherever I can. Want to find out why?

Go is good for the obvious things: building CLIs, cloud infrastructure, HTTP servers, network stuff. Learn esoteric language features, history, read obscure blog posts on details I wouldn’t necessarily have bothered with. Cutting away programming languages doesn’t make software development less complex in a multitude of other aspects, but it does so in one very concrete setting, and one which I spend a lot of time on.

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