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0 pointsremus9y ago0 comments

>The only thing good about Go, is being an evolution path for C coders willing to embrace a GC and some type safety.

You say that like it's a small thing, but what proportion of bugs in C code does that cover? Im guessing you'd hit over 50%.

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pjmlp9y ago

It is a small thing because there are other languages that offer the same safety with more features and lets face it, if a C coder is willing to embrace a GC enabled language there are lots to chose from, with AOT compilation to native code.

I just expected more from Google, specially if one compares to the other company sponsored languages.

snaky9y ago

Comparing apples to apples, the first compiler sponsored by 'other company' was PHP, so Go looks not that bad in comparison. Reason is second, and maybe Google's second language would be 1ML.

pjmlp9y ago

Actually I was thinking in all languages that had commercial compilers, which goes way back than just PHP.

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pjmlp9y ago

I just expected more from Google, specially if one compares to the other company sponsored languages.

snaky9y ago

Comparing apples to apples, the first compiler sponsored by 'other company' was PHP, so Go looks not that bad in comparison. Reason is second, and maybe Google's second language would be 1ML.

pjmlp9y ago

Actually I was thinking in all languages that had commercial compilers, which goes way back than just PHP.

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