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Interesting piece of information below in the thread: in reply to "Go being advertised as a systems PL", David Symonds replies with: "It's not. It used to be, b
by zvrba 15y ago
Interesting piece of information below in the thread: in reply to "Go being advertised as a systems PL", David Symonds replies with: "It's not. It used to be, but it's not any more."
- el_muchacho 15y agoWhat is the definition of a system PL ?
- talentdeficit 15y agodeterministic memory usage is a good start
- zvrba 15y agoThe ability to access the raw memory underlying any object.
- binarycrusader 15y agoExcept, it still is advertised as one (or at least implied to be): "Go is a general-purpose language designed with systems programming in mind." http://golang.org/ref/spec#Introduction You could nit-pick and say that it says "in mind", but the point still stands that they're trying to imply that it's suitable for systems programming. It is not; certainly not at the level of an operating system kernel, etc.