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0 pointsadamnemecek4y ago0 comments

> it's what C++ should have been

No. There's a large class of programs that you can't write in Go that you can write in C++.

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anthk4y ago· 1 in thread

No. I meant that C++ should have never been born. For high perf software C should be enough, while Go could work great for generic system binaries.

Today's low end machines are not a Pentium 2 or 3, but a Raspberry Pi B+ with 512 MB of RAM (very low end, a real life machine would be a Pentium 4 with SSE2 and 1GB of RAM or a Core Duo with 2). Enough for Go and statically linked binaries a la plan9/9front.

adamnemecekOP4y ago

> No. I meant that C++ should have never been born

C++ was an important stepping stone.

There's still a large class of software for which GC-ed languages are non-starters.

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