Posts by AnotherHowie

Microsoft's problem child, Windows 11, is here. Will you run it? Can you run it? Do you even WANT to run it?

Re: Want to run it?

Since the upcoming SteamDeck runs Linux underneath, the situation for Linux generally ought to improve too! It seems to be OK-ish, at the moment...

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HashiCorp runs low on staff, calls a halt to Terraform pull requests

The redeeming features for Go seem to be:

built-in cross-compilation - you can build a mac or windows binary on your linux box with no extra effort

ease of distribution - a single .exe without any nonsense having to support users trying to understand RVM, virtualenv, PEAR, Maven, etc etc just to get their work done.

The single static .exe makes them easy for small containers too.

I guess if you are coming from Python you might think static typing is a benefit too.

Otherwise, there's an awful lot of busywork.