I think the main problem is that we have our heads contaminated by too much "news". We live in constant fear, even when statistically we are less violent than ever.
For instance, terrorism works when its actions are published for the more people to see as possible. Statistically you have more probabilities of chocking to death on your breakfast or slipping in the shower than dying from a terrorist action in Europe/US.
Rational thought is on the backseat... So hence the pessimism and thoughts that something bad is comming.
It's interesting to see how the main philosophy behind Apple products is to prevent this kind of tinkering and that they are also used by a lot of hackers (tinkerers).
I know the answer is "they just work" but it somewhat troubles me. I'm also a pragmatic but then I think about cases like the Bitkeeper debacle and Linus Torvalds vs Richard Stallman positions then. And who was right in the end and how this concluded with the birth of Git.
Ok, it's exactly not the same scenario (HW vs a SW product) but maybe someday we will see a similar conclusion...
I have used it since 2 years ago or so to implement JSON REST APIs and some small admin pages for app backends. I compare with Python which I have also used for this.
Cons:
- More verbose than Python (returning errors and static typing make it not as succint as Python)
Pros:
- Static typing without being too ceremonius (compared to Python it's nice to have some errors catch by the type compiler that would popup in runtime. Refactoring also is nicer with a static typing safenet).
- Easy deployment (rsync the binary to the server and of you go, no more Pip and dynamic libraries bullshit)
- Low memory usage (nice to have the production backend running and see that it uses 15MB of mem where in Python it would be like 10 times more and with worse concurrence)
- Performance (somewhat minor plus for me because the bottleneck is almost always on the database)
Sincerely, what you say sounds great from a bussiness perspective but maybe not from a lifestyle perspective (putting myself in Tarn & Zach's shoes).
Maybe something like that would be the kind of thing that would transform a work of passion into a boring bussiness full of obligations (to users, press, investors, Steam and whatnot). Worse even, after reading interviews with the Adams brothers I guess following a road like that maybe would even burn them after some years and end game development.
It's the difference of doing something for the money that can be extracted from it in contrast with doing something for passion and the joy of doing it. In some cases (or maybe for some personalities) these overlap, but in other cases they don't and it's ok, every person is different.
TL;DR: Does the same as STUN but also is able to relay video & audio for hosts where STUN fails.
I'm using it in a Android app of mine for video conference and works really good. You can download something like coturn and drop it in a 5$ digitalocean and run with it.
The only way that it affects you it's because Go programs can be compiled to a static binary. So from the final user perspective you just download it and put the executable in your path.
Contrast with Python, Node, Ruby... apps where you have to install via Pip, NPM, Gems.
But the real answer it's that Go is in the top of the hype curve right now (I say this as a Go fan myself).
Reading this post reminds of when I tried to learn Scala and ran away when I saw the heap of complexity it was.
It seems like they tried to put all features they could in there without thinking about the orthogonality of the result.
Languages that need all that restraint to be used right maybe are ok for some very clever people, problem is all the rest of us that can't juggle all that in out heads.
Quoting: "I do not rely on the state to care for my son."
Not being from the USA and seeign the place this human being is in, it hurt me reading that justification.
Goddamm, that is what state is for! You have been fed all that capitalist bullshit for so long that don't see that another way of living is possible?
Are people waiting for private companies to help them in moments of need? That's what a welfare state is for. Just look at Europe, for all the jokes about french-strikes, taxes, corruption and whatelse we are not as fucked as this.
For instance, terrorism works when its actions are published for the more people to see as possible. Statistically you have more probabilities of chocking to death on your breakfast or slipping in the shower than dying from a terrorist action in Europe/US.
Rational thought is on the backseat... So hence the pessimism and thoughts that something bad is comming.
Please take a look at this: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/apr/12/news-is-bad-ro...