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> The interesting thing about Go is Rob Pike envisioned it as a systems programming language but any language with GC is a complete nonstarter as a systems prog
by sacado2 7y ago
> The interesting thing about Go is Rob Pike envisioned it as a systems programming language but any language with GC is a complete nonstarter as a systems programming language.
AFAIK, by "systems programming" he meant "non-user-facing programming", not "kernel or embedded programming". So, basically, servers, batch programs and other os utilities.
- Symmetry 7y agoI'd always assumed he was using "systems language" to just mean "as opposed to a scripting language" like perl or bash.