I am able to use different programming languages. I know most of the well-known languages without any problems: C, C++, Java, Python, JavaScript, Typescript, PHP…
However, I wanted to expand my horizon. Zig didn’t do much for me neither did Rust, but now that I’ve written some Golang. I admit, I’m intrigued by the language.
I love the fact it’s compiled to native machine language. There is still one caveat: despite Go being a GC language, you often still need to manage your memory. Sound strange right? But I needed to use io.Copy instead of io.ReadAll to avoid memory issues. But also you need to explicitly call defer res.Body.Close() to avoid Go not cleaning-up the HTTP response… Ow well, so you learn it the hard way. Overall, I’m still very optimistic with Go. And looking forward to use it more often in some of my open-source projects.
See my first project in Go: https://gitlab.melroy.org/melroy/gitlab-artifact-deployer-go. Which I wrote in 3 days.
Did you try Go? What are your thoughts?
I understand your situation, apparently there are workarounds for with as listed in this comment thread. Statically typed languages catch errors at compile time, ensuring robust code and safer refactoring, while also allowing for better performance optimizations. Their explicit type annotations enhance code clarity and maintainability, making it easier to understand and manage large codebases. This leads to more reliable and efficient backend systems.
@melroy@kbin.melroy.org i mean, you can have a statically typed language and safely handle arbitrayry json. you just need Tagged Union types in the language, which make it easy to type hierarchical structures where each level is one of a set of types