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...or selling a shortcoming as a feature. What if someone picks up pcc[1] and claims it is better than the competition because it makes C compilation lightning-
by danieldk 13y ago
...or selling a shortcoming as a feature. What if someone picks up pcc[1] and claims it is better than the competition because it makes C compilation lightning-fast?
Of course, Go is a language that is more amendable for quick compilations. But it would be more interesting to see a solution that provides good optimizations and improves programmer productivity. Go doesn't really have an answer to that (except: use gcc-go), while the competition has (e.g. JIT compilers).
[1] http://pcc.ludd.ltu.se/pcc_history/ http://pcc.ludd.ltu.se/pcc_history/
- stcredzero 13y ago...or selling a shortcoming as a feature. If you want to be nitpicky, it's not that Go is selling a shortcoming as a feature. It's more that it simply doesn't have that feature. Go also has a number of other features pcc doesn't.