The Cloudflare worker JS is a mess of incompatibility and design idiosyncrasies that make it really impractical for true edge application design. What I mean by cloud native & serverless is specifically containerized platforms where you ship your container and they run it - where a golang container can be 30MB with everything included vs a full-fat nodejs container in the 100-500MB range. Scala is also huge when bundled and shipped as a fat jar. Hell even windows binaries if you really wanted to push something to the end client, are trivial in golang and invoke none of the .net client library, c++ redistributable or "shipping java with your app" headaches of other solutions. Only Delphi and C linked against winapi can offer this same level of portability on Windows.
AWS's lambda golang is first-class as well as GCP's golang "Cloud Functions".
Again, can't speak highly enough of using golang on cloud.
My only grievance with Go in the cloud is that it's tedious to have to set up a CI job or similar to build your binaries to deploy in your functions. I really wish I could just ship the source code and have it compile for me (or failing that, if CloudFormation or AWS SAM or Terraform or whatever could transparently manage the compilation).
For us it's as simple as docker build right from the repo -> push to registry for test deployment then tag with prod for rollout from there.
Probably not ideal for 20+ dev teams or high complexity deployments but this is the simplest CI and its much quicker build than node, so dev's can do it locally in all cases.
Very interesting, Can you give some specific examples of where CI/CD tools which works fine for large organizations for other programming languages don't work to your satisfaction with Go?
I think you’ve misunderstood the thread. I was arguing that you can get away with “dev builds image locally and pushes straight to prod” in an early startup, but in a mature organization you need CI/CD.
> My only grievance with Go in the cloud is that it's tedious to have to set up a CI job or similar to build your binaries to deploy in your functions.
So I thought your CI/CD works to your satisfaction for other programming languages, But you found Go tedious and so I wanted to understand some specific cases.
AWS's lambda golang is first-class as well as GCP's golang "Cloud Functions".
Again, can't speak highly enough of using golang on cloud.