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burntsushi on March 12, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: How We Went from 30 Servers to 2: Go

> test-driven development

`go test`.

> Does Go provide an ecosystem that supports agile refactorings that are common in lean startups?

Go has a compiler and is staticly and strongly typed. Which automatically makes it at least an order of magnitude easier to refactor safely.

Not really sure about the other stuff you mentioned. I've never even heard of BDD before.

gregors on March 13, 2013 [–]

I've heard this argument before e.g. we don't need to test because the compiler catches errors. The compiler catches the mot trivial of error conditions. Unfortunately it doesn't address faulty logic/behavior.

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