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[sarabwt]

"I just want something simple" while having a k8s folder in your project is fucking golden :D

[ivanyanakiev]

I think we gotta respect him being so honest about what he knows and doesn't and that he realizes that some things might not be accurate and always informs the audience. Just for reference pointers and references are not the same when you want to modify a variable you pass by pointer, reference semantics is something in c++

[Aditya_-nv]

We love Golang
it's the best way to make API and handle servers efficiently !!
Dont stop Making Go content

[slugbtye]

spent the last 10y as a node/react/yadayadyada dev, felt the burn out harrrd the last few years, recently switched to righting a lot oft go and zig and feel its a huge breath of fresh air. I love the term JS detox. I am so glad to be taking a break.

Great video!

[erikslorenz]

Go has been a major breath of fresh air for me. You can also see how much influence it has on things like bun and deno

It’s also hard to describe but the LSP is super good. It does a lot of really nice things for you

[fullstack_journey]

I've been learning web dev and swimming in the javascript ecosystem for around 6-7 years and now I work as a golang dev, this is becoming more and more common.

[jeffkayombo]

Cody really stands out when it comes to authenticity and transparency. The video starts with him just saying why he is learning Go. For other YouTubers, that would have been said somewhere at the end of the video (if not click bait) but not Cody!

Keep up the great work Cody.

[kumar-jatin-]

Things I love about go:
- stdlib (it's really amazing)
- compile time
- interfaces (i really like go's approach of implementing interfaces)
- error handling (some people hate this)
- concurrency model
- and the best feature, 'defer'. I miss that feature so much whenever I use TS.

Things I don't like:
- Lack of generics in the stdlib.
- Naked return
- That uppercase export

[matlonginow]

I happen to also be learning Go at work and I come from a React/TS world, so it's nice to see your reflections on your learning and what you appreciate about Go coming from so much experience in JS land.

[Beastintheomlet]

I’ve been subbed for a long while but I’m excited about Go, I’ve really grown sour on node and JS on the backend.

[CodeOnBlocks]

I'm extremely happy that you're doing content on Go. It's going to be a lot more adopted in the future, and getting started early would be great for you since there aren't many content creators for it.

Go is a beautiful language that's so simple. I love that if you capitalize or lowercase the beginning of a variable/type/function/method it defines if it's public or private. Makes it so easy without having to use keywords like `public` and `private`.

Keep it up!

[tacowilco]

Thank you buddy. Your passion to learn something new encourages me to learn as well.

[ventic]

17:30 defer is great, because it guarantees something gets done at the end of the function, so even if you have multiple returns you can have the one deferred function call. It's particularly useful in Go because early returns are very common with the normal error handling patterns.

[hakooplayplay]

I clearly understand you. I was a team lead in startup, was working with JavaScript frontend and nodejs 5 years and now I'm happy working as back-end Go developer in big local company and I'm loving it

[saralightbourne]

i really like how straightforward and honest you are about your opinion and experience. it kinda makes me learn from your perspective

[ohLyln]

We love Go! I have had a recent epiphany along the same lines. I use JS and TS so much at work sometimes I just want a simple language where I can lean on the std lib and not have to learn the newest framework for every little aspect.

Go is a breath of fresh air. It feels like when you learn something you’ll be using that knowledge much later down the line and not have to relearn the new way to do it with every project.

I have even got some Go microservice a up and running at work and a powerful cli tool to automate a huge problem we had on a on perm server which badly needed to be concurrent so Go was perfect.

[rmmiro]

Go content is and will be much appreciated, happy coding!

[rustystrings]

I literally said this EXACT thing to my co-worker this morning, and set up my Go environment just last night. The timing is crazy

[tambow]

As someone whom went from C/++ to JS/TS and is just now starting on Go, this video was really cute seeing you discover concepts Go's inherited from C :)

[eshw]

Golang seems so fire. So many big tech companies use it, plus it has the crazy speed of C++ and the simple syntax of Python, Ruby, Js.