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Sometimes I wonder: if Apple's new language had been Go, and Google's new language had been Swift, how would reaction by developers and adoption have differed?

by austinz 12y ago

Sometimes I wonder: if Apple's new language had been Go, and Google's new language had been Swift, how would reaction by developers and adoption have differed? (You can also run this thought exercise with Go and Rust, if you prefer a different competition between self-proclaimed systems languages.)

kxo 12y ago
I'm not totally sure how a non-optionally garbage-collected language with a runtime could ever be called a "systems language."
- _ak 12y ago
  The "systems" in the term "systems language" the Go team used shortly after initially releasing Go refers to systems like Google has them running.