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You are right yet Go is much closer to C than Erlang in syntax, type system and memory-representation. Go is so close to C in fact, that its compiler is a modif

• agumonkey 12y ago
  Agreed, I meant Erlang for its use. It's hard to be more different than Erlang in implementation :)
• voidlogic 12y ago
  I think of Go as "C++", but as brought to you by the guys who made C, with tasty sprinkles from CSP and Python.
  • coldtea 12y ago
    It's mostly Java from the people who made C, but didn't learn much from their C design mistakes.
    • voidlogic 12y ago
      Ridiculous. Go's lack of verbose classes and lack of inheritance, pass everything by value, the existence of pointers, first class concurrency primitives, compile to binary / no interpretation/JIT, lack of a VM, built in unit testing/benching, fast compile times, memory usage, easy C integration, etc etc all make it very different from Java. I've been writing Go full-time for over 2 years and used to write mostly Java/C#, so I should know. When I started with Go and ported many of my personal Java applications, they all were much more maintainable and straight forward in Go. Of course C had always been favorite language, and all I ever really wanted was a "modern" C, so I am probably biased.