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>then I got disappointed with the overall direction the language design was going. Can you elaborate? Thanks.
by vram22 11y ago
>then I got disappointed with the overall direction the language design was going.
Can you elaborate? Thanks.
- pjmlp 11y agoFor me the fact that Go is a descent of Oberon-2 and Limbo is quite interesting, but there are several features that a modern language should have that aren't present in Go and never will be. Hence why I rather see the appeal of Go as a way to attract developers that would otherwise use C, to make use of a more safer programming language. As many turn to C, just because they don't know other AOT compiled languages well, not because they really need any C special feature. Regardless of the discussion regarding if it is a systems programming language or not, I think it can be, given its lineage. It only needs someone to get the bootstraped version (1.6) write a bare metal runtime and then it would be proven. Maybe a nice idea for someone looking for a PhD thesis in OS area. Me, I would rather make use of a .NET, JVM or ML influenced language as those have type systems more of my liking.