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Maybe Go isn't very innovative, but that doesn't mean it wouldn't be more useful than the old stuff. With Turbo Pascal and Delphi I could also generate a single

Maybe Go isn't very innovative, but that doesn't mean it wouldn't be more useful than the old stuff. With Turbo Pascal and Delphi I could also generate a single exe with no stupid DLL dependencies. But Turbo Pascal and Delphi don't support anything besides Windows and Borland's Kylix never got traction. Go on the other hand can generate no-dependency executables for Windows, Linux and OSX, pretty much all the major players of today. And what's maybe more important than the language's innovativeness is community support. Of all the languages today that allow generating a single executable for all major platforms, Go probably has the most active community.

sacado2 13y ago
That was not a critic toward Go. Quite the contrary.
akavel 13y ago
Actually, there's FreePascal/Lazarus, and IIUC it's quite cross-platform: from http://www.freepascal.org/ http://www.freepascal.org/ : "It can target multiple processor architectures: Intel x86, AMD64/x86-64, PowerPC, PowerPC64, SPARC, and ARM. Supported operating systems include Linux, FreeBSD, Haiku, Mac OS X/iOS/Darwin, DOS, Win32, Win64, WinCE, OS/2, MorphOS, Nintendo GBA, Nintendo DS, and Nintendo Wii."
tonyplee 13y ago
"Windows, Linux and OSX, pretty much all the major players of today" - any plan to support Android and iOS? Why and Why not?
- pjmlp 13y ago
  To support Android the Go team needs to accept dynamic loading, at least for the current NDK toolchain as you can only have shared objects as binaries.
coderjames 13y ago
You might want to take another look at Delphi, as the recent versions (XE4 and XE5) have added cross-platform support for OSX and Android (at least). While I still have to develop on Windows, I can easily produce native static OSX binaries and Windows binaries from one source tree and with careful selection of UI components also an Android app.

sacado2 13y ago

That was not a critic toward Go. Quite the contrary.

akavel 13y ago

Actually, there's FreePascal/Lazarus, and IIUC it's quite cross-platform: from http://www.freepascal.org/ http://www.freepascal.org/ : "It can target multiple processor architectures: Intel x86, AMD64/x86-64, PowerPC, PowerPC64, SPARC, and ARM. Supported operating systems include Linux, FreeBSD, Haiku, Mac OS X/iOS/Darwin, DOS, Win32, Win64, WinCE, OS/2, MorphOS, Nintendo GBA, Nintendo DS, and Nintendo Wii."

tonyplee 13y ago

"Windows, Linux and OSX, pretty much all the major players of today" - any plan to support Android and iOS? Why and Why not?

pjmlp 13y ago
To support Android the Go team needs to accept dynamic loading, at least for the current NDK toolchain as you can only have shared objects as binaries.

coderjames 13y ago

You might want to take another look at Delphi, as the recent versions (XE4 and XE5) have added cross-platform support for OSX and Android (at least). While I still have to develop on Windows, I can easily produce native static OSX binaries and Windows binaries from one source tree and with careful selection of UI components also an Android app.