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How is Go not general purpose?

• hellofunk 11y ago
  Try to build a mobile app with Go.
  • anandroiddev 11y ago
    You can build a mobile app in Go, for both Android and iOS. https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/mobile https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/mobile
    • hellofunk 11y ago
      I didn't say you can't do it. I said, try to do it. The phrase "general purpose" must be stretched considerably in such a case.
      • anandroiddev 11y ago
        Is there a language you _do_ consider "general purpose"?
        • hellofunk 11y ago
          Yes. More than one, actually.
  • ikurei 11y ago
    How are you then defining general-purpose? I'd say a language is general-purpose when it has not been tailored to a specific scenario or area of problems, but to work well for most. Isn't that, to a great extent, true for go?