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by detrol2k • 11 years ago

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cies• 11 years ago

While browsing through the repos I noticed they are all by this guy:

https://github.com/daaku

Well done daaku :)

geoah• 11 years ago

Came here to say this. Respect to daaku!

TheMagicHorsey• 11 years ago

I'm surprised Facebook doesn't use more Go. Everyone I talk to from Facebook seems to love Go--no idea why they don't use it more widely. Facebook doesn't strike me as the sort of company to not use a programming language just because its rival (Google) is in the driver's seat. Go is still open source.

I know Facebook has some D advocates, but D doesn't seem to be too popular among the programmers I know. I haven't looked too deeply at it myself, but it seems to be a language more interested in taking the job of Rust and C, rather than the job of Python and Ruby. So there is no reason Facebook can't pursue both languages as a company.

Dewie3• 11 years ago

Funny that the original intent for the Go creators was to not have to write C++[1] -- which of course is in the C/C++/Rust/D space -- and that Rob Pike seemed surprised that more C++ programmers didn't make the switch.

The two languages seem to diverge when it comes to the fact that Walter Bright seems to like to write both expressive and high-performance code (meaning, at the same time). That kind of philosophy tends to lead to iterators, generators[2] etc. which Go seems to look at as superfluous -- just write a for loop, more or less.

[1] Write C++ for the particular software that they make, anyway.

[2] Or whatever the equivalent is in D.

M8• 11 years ago

Maybe Facebook engineers like generics? Regardless, I think Facebook is capable enough to create it's own language as well.

enneff• 11 years ago

Creating a new language is a big effort that requires a lot of expertise. Why would they create a new language if there's one that they already like and want to use?

bgarbiak• 11 years ago

There should be description fields or some kind of readme files for the profiles on GitHub. I can only assume that what I'm looking at is a set of tools written in/for Go language that are used by Facebook. Right?

akavel• 11 years ago

See also previous discussion at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8601456

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