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While I dislike golang its runtime and compiler are nice. Also lot of its simplicity aspects are nice. if vlang can implement what it is trying to implement th

by mrath 7y ago

While I dislike golang its runtime and compiler are nice. Also lot of its simplicity aspects are nice. if vlang can implement what it is trying to implement then probably it will be a nice contender to golang in all aspects. But that looks too good to be true. The other language is rust, but the higher learning curve make it a bit harder for adoption in non systems where go/java like performance is enough.

minxomat 7y ago
I mean, Crystal would be my next go-to. If you have never written Ruby (like me) the appeal isn't the Ruby-like syntax, it's just a reasonable syntax with a very pragmatic type system and niceties (like classes, which are more open to hacking / composition than in other languages). It's like Go++ in my mind.
- Thaxll 7y ago
  Crystal is dead, exactly how can you expect to have a language that compete with Go with only 2 full time devs?
  - jonahx 7y ago
    Looking at their homepage it seems far from dead.
  - ramchip 7y ago
    Does it have to “beat” Go or die?
    - pjmlp 7y ago
      No, but it definitely needs a community big enough to keep it alive.
stevekablink 7y ago
Rust may have a "higher learning curve" but it also takes a "learning curve" to learn to debug memory errors. I argue that it's actually quicker to learn Rust.