I worked at one of the early "container companies"; and wrote large parts of an in house mostly docker-compatible container engine. It was going to be part of a container orchestration platform pre-k8s and docker swarm.
This guy is totally correct. We also used Go for everything -- as it was hot stuff at the time -- and also very frustrating to deal with early version. Dependency management nightmares, bugs in the runtime, etc.
He also had to have a C shim that got loaded first, or shelled out to.
The hype around Google tools was pretty fascinating. I felt like that was the primary reason around using such an immature language at the time. There were better systems languages around for that kind of work.
This guy is totally correct. We also used Go for everything -- as it was hot stuff at the time -- and also very frustrating to deal with early version. Dependency management nightmares, bugs in the runtime, etc.
He also had to have a C shim that got loaded first, or shelled out to.
The hype around Google tools was pretty fascinating. I felt like that was the primary reason around using such an immature language at the time. There were better systems languages around for that kind of work.