Remove Go content #943
Remove Go content #943
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If you are reading this commit by commit, no fear I add something back in in the next commit. Why remove this whole section at this level however? Go's major reason to be at GDS was tied to PaaS, and PaaS has now largely gone away. I think the point the section makes about how there could be a use for routing etc isn't a bad one, but I think that's far more likely to happen today deep in the gubbins of AWS, in Infrastructure-as-code or in languages like sucati for firewall rules. So my vote here, is that we remove it wholesale. If there are future ventures that come up with good uses for Go, they should be subject to the bottom paragraph, raise it with your head of Tech and bring it back formally with a good usecase.
- Previously this just talked about scala, let's make this it's own heading level - Then let's add a note on Go, resucing some of the good stuff from the paragraph I just deleted but very much talking in past tense now. Hopefully this helps cement the idea that we wouldn't expect Go to be used as a new language at GDS right now.
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Question... does removing it here mean we should remove the styleguides and links? https://gds-way.digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk/manuals/programming-languages.html In my head: Argument against - It's still used in GOV.UK's Router... so might be useful to see how to refactor / write fixes in good style. Plus there's a good banner at the top saying it's not core, so limited risk someone gets excited and starts using it, better chance they search find this and find out there's a head of tech to speak to? |
| Foundry](https://www.cloudfoundry.org/), which GOV.UK PaaS uses, although | ||
| GOV.UK PaaS is being [decommissioned][pass-decom]. As such, the knowledge and | ||
| experience of building and running services in Go is small and decreasing. | ||
| Foundry](https://www.cloudfoundry.org/), which was used by GOV.UK PaaS. |
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You may want to keep the precious copy? Router is still used, right? And CloudFoundry is no-mo, along the paas-decom.
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I'm not sure what's happened with this commit, but this paragraph makes no sense. I'm assuming this is supposed to say GOV.UK Router, and there's no need to mention PaaS:
the GOV.UK Foundry, which was used by GOV.UK PaaS
| The only Go service currently in production operation is the [GOV.UK | ||
| Foundry](https://www.cloudfoundry.org/), which was used by GOV.UK PaaS. | ||
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| PaaS has now been [decommissioned][pass-decom]. |
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PaaS has not yet been completely decommissioned. While it's no longer available for general use, it's still being operated within GDS, and used by DBT.
One for folks with more GDS history than me to 👀 but as I reviewed around these changes felt right to me.