I liked the article. I think it was really well written and these are great points. So if not Go, then what's the alternative? I too am starting to feel a bit burnt out by some of Go's deficiencies, but one of the things I really like about Go is its concurrency model. What other languages have great concurrency models? Please keep in mind that I want to keep things simple... having a single binary to deploy is incredibly efficient.
I've been wanting to use Crystal. Does anyone have experience running Crystal in production? Without getting into the specifics, the Go parts of my personal project are a websocket server that upgrades when a user is authenticated and authorized, and their actions spawn jobs in a queue. I have processors (written in Golang) that take these tasks and perform somewhat complex async actions. Would Crystal fit the bill here? I'd really like to avoid getting into Elixir/Erlang world or any kind of interpreted language that will complicate the deployment process (like Deno or Ruby).
I've been wanting to use Crystal. Does anyone have experience running Crystal in production? Without getting into the specifics, the Go parts of my personal project are a websocket server that upgrades when a user is authenticated and authorized, and their actions spawn jobs in a queue. I have processors (written in Golang) that take these tasks and perform somewhat complex async actions. Would Crystal fit the bill here? I'd really like to avoid getting into Elixir/Erlang world or any kind of interpreted language that will complicate the deployment process (like Deno or Ruby).