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That some google services were rewritten in golang doesn't really say much, in a video Rob Pike himself said that lots of services in google can't and shouldn't
by derengel 12y ago
That some google services were rewritten in golang doesn't really say much, in a video Rob Pike himself said that lots of services in google can't and shouldn't be rewritten in Go because of the GC, the video: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2014/Panel-Systems-Programming-Languages-in-2014-and-Beyond http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2014/Pan... - At 31:20 Andrei starts talking about the problem of the GC with the scale of Facebook, you can start watching there.