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I tried Goland for two of my personal projects. Initially I thought I will get used to the new syntax, but it never happened. It may have certain performance-ed

• hahainternet 11y ago
  I picked up Go because C frustrated me so much. Can you give some examples as to why you prefer C?
  • agentultra 11y ago
    Not the author... I prefer C99. A smattering of features I like: * Variable Length Arrays * Variadic Macros * Designated Initializers * Anonymous Structs * Compound Literals Some of the meta-"features" I like: * No built-in runtime or GC * A choice of dynamic vs static compilation * A good libc is wonderful but not necessary to get work done fast * The tooling is mature and plentiful I'm sure Go is a fine language. I probably suffer from some sort of first-language bias as I've been using C for a long time and only know a smattering of Go from toy programs, blog posts, and reading the source to interesting projects like CockroachDB.
    • voidlogic 11y ago
      I just want to point out: 1. Variable Length Arrays: Go has slices 2. Anonymous Structs: Go has these 3. No built-in runtime (in C): This is not true unless you are compiling -ffreestanding -nostdlib, etc. I have done this in C, but such programs have to call system-calls directly and provide their own malloc, etc.
      • agentultra 11y ago
        Not for every project but it does have it's uses (re: -ffreestanding -nostdlib, etc)
    • ybx 11y ago
      It's probably not at the point yet where you'd be interested in it (especially for tooling), but you might like Rust in the future.