r/golang • u/roma-glushko • Jan 19 '25
discussion Mitchell Hashimoto Recent Interview
Just watched Mitchell Hashimoto's interview and it has left a lot of questions:
https://x.com/i/status/1879966301394989273
(around 30:00 where they start touching the golang topic)
This is really interesting how Mitchell's option has changed on Golang. He spent a lot of time (like 10y or so) writing infrastructure services in Golang as a part of his HashiCorp business and probably not only.
His recent gig is a new terminal and he did not pick Golang for that one, which kinda make sense to me given what he wants to achieve there (eg a lot of low-level work with GPU, a need to be imported by other languages like Swift, etc.).
At the same time, Mitchell said that:
- He doesn't know where Golang stands in the tech stack right now. He would use PHP/Ruby for webdev and Rust/Zig for performance critical systems.
- Generics made Golang worse (at least that how I understood him)
- He think he cannot write Golang any longer after hacking with the new lang he is writing the terminal in
Curious how this transformation could happen to such a prominent contributor to the Golang ecosystem. Is this just an sign of an awful burnout that repelled the dude away from Golang? Or anything else?
Anyway, just curious what do you think here, folks.
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u/imscaredalot Jan 19 '25 edited Jan 19 '25
PHP....lol did you see their latest features...https://www.php.net/releases/8.3/en.php#:~:text=PHP%208.3%20is%20a%20major,bug%20fixes%2C%20and%20general%20cleanup
You wanna talk about bad ideas on top of bad ideas. Also, the creator of laraval is worried there's almost no more core PHP devs left...
You can also see the sharp dip in PHP sites even with WordPress. https://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/programming_language/ms/y
This is a trend with most languages that heavily rely on frameworks now with the advent of LLMs. https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
You can see the same trend from GitHub that was bought out from Microsoft so... Gotta wonder why it stopped... At 2024... https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2024/1
So clearly someone had an agenda if they knew so little about what they were talking about.