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> Heck, go is billed as a systems language and it's GC'ed! That would be crazy 20 years ago. When your allow the term to mean anything, it's only natural that
by josteink 11y ago
> Heck, go is billed as a systems language and it's GC'ed! That would be crazy 20 years ago.
When your allow the term to mean anything, it's only natural that anything qualifies.
The computing world uses the term to describe things you build operating systems and kernels and hardware interfaces with.
Google redefined it to mean something you build web apps with ala NodeJS. By that definition, PHP is a systems language too.
Basically Go as a systems language is a false claim.
- josteink 11y agoJust to clarify my comment in case it comes off overly negative: I don't think go is a bad language as such. I just think representing it as an alternative to C, a systems language, is misleading.