>I like Go. I use it for a number of things (including this blog)
and yet it goes down once it is posted on HN. I have had some articles of mine end up on HN and I never went down, even when my blog was still WordPress hosted on a machine of mine.
This is probably more of a shortcoming of the various cloud providers than of the language/environment itself I guess.
Not a great metric. My blog once got unexpectedly slash dotted (ended up on Reddit and HN front pages for a day; silly enough the post was the one I put the least work into by far and the idea was not even mine). I was at the time running WordPress with WP Supercache using only right PHP workers. The site never had a hiccup. Ergo PHP is the best language out there? :)
In reality, do use something like WP Supercache. It will save your hide.
The "Retry for a live version" button is powered by Cloudflare, which also uses Go for many of its core services. So I'd be willing to bet it's the programming environment and/or the particular program, not the language.
programming language semantics and server availability are distinct topics. If you write a beautiful Haskell program that generates n+1 queries on a database, it will fall over. That doesn't make Haskell bad. Nine times out of ten, making a blog survive the heavy traffic of something like being on HN front page just means knowing how to cache things.
and yet it goes down once it is posted on HN. I have had some articles of mine end up on HN and I never went down, even when my blog was still WordPress hosted on a machine of mine.
This is probably more of a shortcoming of the various cloud providers than of the language/environment itself I guess.