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Clojure and Go seem like two of the least comparable languages to me. They basically have no commonalities. Comparing Java, Kotlin, or Scala to Go seems more va
by zucker42 6y ago
Clojure and Go seem like two of the least comparable languages to me. They basically have no commonalities. Comparing Java, Kotlin, or Scala to Go seems more valuable to me.
- bcrosby95 6y agoSuperficially they're very different. But lots of people use Go because its a "first class" concurrency language. Concurrency was given a huge consideration in Clojure too, with its immutability, STM, agents, etc. The reasons you might choose Go can overlap heavily with why you might choose Clojure, Erlang, or Elixir.
- vips7L 6y agoIs it really first class though? Anything CPU bound is basically a noop since GO doesn't have actual threads.
- bcrosby95 6y agoGo automatically multiplexes goroutines on top of OS threads. You can peg all the cores of a multicore CPU in a single Go program using goroutines. Edit: last I looked you could see how many OS threads would be used by looking at runtime.GOMAXPROCS. There was a time when it would just default to 1, but it looks like they changed it. When I last programmed in Go you had to override it via an environment variable or set it in code.