Just Fucking Use Go
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A blunt, opinionated argument for using Go as the default backend language. Covers Go's intentional simplicity, powerful standard library (net/http, database/sql, encoding/json, context, io.Reader/Writer), built-in tooling (gofmt, go test, pprof, race detector), goroutine-based concurrency, straightforward dependency management via go.mod, and single-binary deployment. Argues against over-engineering with microservices, heavy frameworks, ORMs, and complex deployment pipelines. Includes practical code examples for a web server, parallel HTTP fetcher, and a CRUD handler with Postgres.
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The language is boring on purposeThe standard library is the frameworkThe stdlib is also fucking deepConcurrency that doesn't make you cryA real example, not a hello-worldDependencies that don't ruin your weekendThe tooling ships with the compilerDeployment is a copy command"But what about Rails / Django / Express / Next?""But microservices!""But generics! But error handling! But no exceptions!"Just fucking use Go13 Comments
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