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		nostrademons on Oct 12, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Wave and the mythical man month I don't think that's fair. GMail and Adwords are production applications and do just fine with Java. I think it's more the opposite: Do not use Java when you haven't achieved product/market fit yet. Because it will cost you, dearly, in iteration velocity. Go write your initial version in Python or Ruby or Lisp or something that lets you quickly try out new ideas, and once it starts creaking under load, then you rewrite it in Java or C++.

uriel on Oct 12, 2011 [–]

Or write your initial version in Go, and you wont have to do a rewrite ;)

nostrademons on Oct 12, 2011 | [–]

But you'll have a tough time finding libraries when you want to prototype your new feature really quick... ;-)

uriel on Oct 13, 2011 | | [–]

The Go stdlib is rather comprehensive. And there are tons of third party libs:

http://go-lang.cat-v.org/pure-go-libs http://go-lang.cat-v.org/library-bindings

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