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OCaml is a much more modern language than Go.

• ngrilly 10y ago
  Yes and no, depending on which aspect of the language you consider: - Type system -> OCaml is more modern (despite being designed before Go) - Concurrency, parallelism, garbage collector, tooling -> Go is more modern (Reason is improving the tooling with refmt for example; work is ongoing on parallelism)
  • eru 10y ago
    Interesting. What's fancy about the Go garbage collector?
    • ngrilly 10y ago
      As far as I know, there is nothing fancy about it, except for the fact that a lot of work has been put into Go's garbage collector, especially in versions 1.5 and 1.6, with people working full-time on it. Go easily achieves GC latencies well below 10 ms, even for programs using a large heap, without having to manually "tune" the GC. https://blog.golang.org/go15gc https://blog.golang.org/go15gc https://talks.golang.org/2015/go-gc.pdf https://talks.golang.org/2015/go-gc.pdf Go 1.5 concurrent garbage collector pacing, https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wmjrocXIWTr1JxU-3EQBI6BK6KgtiFArkG47XK73xIQ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wmjrocXIWTr1JxU-3EQBI6BK...