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Like you, I obviously don't grok Go. Is the goal to build a modern general purpose language? Or is it to build a better C? I'm not sure how it can succeed at
by latch 16y ago
Like you, I obviously don't grok Go. Is the goal to build a modern general purpose language? Or is it to build a better C?
I'm not sure how it can succeed at either when when it borrows a so much from C (a language which is at least a couple generations dated when it comes to general purpose languages) while adding garbage collection.
- kinghajj 16y agoThe purpose of Go isn't to replace C at what C does best, like being wicked fast and having very direct access to the hardware. It's meant to replace programs that Google used to write in C++, like web servers, data aggregators, etc. Go was designed by Googlers for Googlers, and that's very obvious from both the design and standard libraries.