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What language would have been appropriate in 2013?

• kaba0 6y ago
  Well, C++ had been around, but there were plenty of managed languages also. I will be hated for this, but perhaps even Java would have been appropriate if one sets the heap size appropriately, I believe the GCs were already quite good then; and it wouldn’t have to create too much garbage so I think it could get away with only a bit of memory. The only problem is the not too comfortable way to do C calls.
  • fl0wenol 6y ago
    Unix sockets aren't in the standard java libraries either, which probably meant it was a non-starter.
• themadsens 6y ago
  Golang comes to mind. Gobs of C boilerplate could have been avoided. Docker is written in Go after all and was first released in 2013
  • CameronNemo 6y ago
    Go was very immature at the time. Literally a brand new language.