Go is the most beautiful programming language I have used

• ran

  2 859 0.0 Go

  a simple static web server written in Go

Here is a server I ran across: https://github.com/m3ng9i/ran

• windigo

  32 353 6.5 Go

  Windows API and GUI in idiomatic Go.

After writing a lot of Go (I even wrote a whole compatibility layer over the native Windows API), the pain point that made me stop using Go in large projects is the concept of meaningful zero value, which led to the total lack of constructors. Although the idea is nice at first, the concept simply doesn't work with complex data structures.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• cosmos-sdk

  145 5,958 9.9 Go

  :chains: A Framework for Building High Value Public Blockchains :sparkles:

  

My problem with go is that it turns out none of the problems I face fit well into the go solution space. I routinely have to deal with 256 bit ints (I work in crypto, and that's virtually everything we work with), and the big.Int stuff is a poster child for when it's a terrible idea to use go. (And yes, that does mean that I think building https://cosmos.network/ with golang was a serious mistake.) So while I might like the language in theory, in practice I'm not sure who actually should be using it. I certainly wouldn't suggest that anyone start a new project using it.

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