alt Hacker NewsOpenAI uses Go for the networking implementation for the relays and the services, which makes a ton of sense, instead of something immature as TypeScript / Node or whatever.
Yet another reason to not consider anything else like that for low-latency networking. Golang (or even Rust and C++) is unmatched for this use-case.
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nvarsj • yesterday at 9:10 PM
Can golang do zero copy networking nowadays? In the past golang was terrible at this kind of thing due to allocations and copies of all relayed data.
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"something immature as TypeScript / Node or whatever"
Node.js's initial release was May 27, 2009
Golang 's initial release was November 10, 2009
They're different, yes, but it's not like