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I'll believe it when I see it - anyone have examples of well-written Go compared side-by-side to well-written C++ to show how it is "more expressive"? Anyway,

by pubby 14y ago

I'll believe it when I see it - anyone have examples of well-written Go compared side-by-side to well-written C++ to show how it is "more expressive"? Anyway, the benefit to small languages is that it's much easier to design and reason about a consistent and reusable set of language features. The result is overall a superior design, but worse in programmer productivity. Saying "less is more" is just a Turing tarpit.

luriel 14y ago
> The result is overall a superior design, but worse in programmer productivity. Go (or its current implementations) might have many deficiencies, but I think almost everyone that has used it for any minimally sized project will agree programming it Go is much more productive than C++. Some quotes about how productive people are with Go: http://go-lang.cat-v.org/quotes http://go-lang.cat-v.org/quotes