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One year after switching from Java to Go

I always told people memory is cheap, black magic is OK and efficiency doesn't matter, but I was wrong.

The first couple of times I started the web server, I waited a few seconds until it would "boot up" because I didn't see any new logs, but I realized it was already running and ready to accept connections. I personally think that IDE support (at least in IntelliJ) is slightly superior, as it hides traces from frameworks and creates hyperlinks to the source files inside the scope, where you can quickly browse into them. The initial learning curve wasn’t as steep as expected, and the benefits—blazing-fast startup times, lower resource consumption, and a more lightweight ecosystem—became apparent pretty quickly.

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