If the purpose of adding "killer features" is just to make Go more popular then I'm completely against it. That doesn't seem like a sustainable way of growing and retaining a community, who may just move onto the next killer feature in another language. I'm not even sure that explicitly growing Go's attention should even be a goal. People will use Go when it fits the problems they need to solve.
I don't personally see any slowdown in Go's adoption in the areas I'm working in which is high scale web services. On Thu, 16 Jan 2020, at 11:12 AM, JuciÊ Andrade wrote: > Liam has a point. Go is not attracting attention as it used to do. Go ceased > to generate news. > > Other projects attracts attention by aggregating new features often. So there > is always a flux of news about the project, news that attracts interest, that > bring new users to the project. However, that approach ultimately leads to > disaster. Each new wave of developers want to employ the latest and greatest > features and after some years you end up with a nightmare in form of millions > of lines of source code using a plethora of competing techniques. > > The minimalism in Go is its strength, but few people are mature enough to > appreciate that. So what now? > > I think we need to add a killer feature now and then. Not so often as to > create a nightmare, but only a few, very sparse. Such a feature would be > something that is very desirable but utterly difficult to achieve, something > that only a selected group of the best professionals in the world backed by > one of the biggest tech companies in the world could make. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/e14daa6c-b55b-43a4-9af8-f983057ba0ab%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/e14daa6c-b55b-43a4-9af8-f983057ba0ab%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/e18ab6a7-1c8b-44fc-a83c-d292d4befaf6%40www.fastmail.com.
