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Looking at things people write in Go, I can't shake the feeling Go is a new /bin/sh with xinetd built in.
by snaky 10y ago
Looking at things people write in Go, I can't shake the feeling Go is a new /bin/sh with xinetd built in.
- drvdevd 10y agoThe way I personally use it ... I'd say you're exactly right. And adding that to an easy cross compilation/platform story that can side-step C toolchains in many cases, garbage collection, and intelligible concurrency, and you've got an extremely useful tool.
- snaky 10y agoSo the main reasons for Go are the fact 'coproc' keyword added to Bash since version 4 is still considered experimental[1] and the fact that a vast majority of modern developers don't know shell good enough. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/bash/comments/4ksl7w/golanglike_goroutines_in_bash/ https://www.reddit.com/r/bash/comments/4ksl7w/golanglike_gor...