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> the only group who saw possible benefits were programmers that would otherwise use languages like Python but liked extra speed and convenience of a compiled l
by pekk 12y ago
> the only group who saw possible benefits were programmers that would otherwise use languages like Python but liked extra speed and convenience of a compiled language.
To say "the only group" is far from true. Go has a lot of uptake among people who would otherwise use C++ or Java, for example. And yes, actually there is overlap in the audience of Go and the audiences for C or Rust. Go has its own advantages but really lacks the advantages of a very high-level interpreted language.
- acqq 12y agoI agree, "the only" is wrong wording. Luckily there are more sentences in my reply. And actually there are elements of Go that I like. However my impression of the responses of the compiled-language groups were: C: "oh, it's GC, runtime-lib and its calling conventions dependent," C++ "oh it can't make universal containers" and Java "oh it lacks exceptions." Only the Python people were "oh it's much faster than Python and not much harder." And no, I don't think Go needs exceptions.