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I haven't done anything big in Go yet, but I loved that in their tutorial they talk in depth about the design choices they made for the language. It really feel

by vlunkr 12y ago

I haven't done anything big in Go yet, but I loved that in their tutorial they talk in depth about the design choices they made for the language. It really feels like a language that was designed with a purpose, and they are a little obsessive about keeping it pure, not letting it get bloated with features, which suits it nicely. On a side note, why does every discussion about Go seem to turn immediately into a comparison/argument between Go and Rust? I'm not an expert in either language, but I don't see why the two languages can't coexist.

Jweb_Guru 12y ago
If you were an expert in either language, you also wouldn't see why the two languages couldn't coexist. Outside of some nebulous sense that both languages are aimed at "systems programming," and the fact that neither of them existed ten years ago, I have yet to read a convincing explanation of why they have more in common than, say, OCaml and Fortran. We clearly need more OCaml-Fortran comparisons. Or hell, let's do some Rust-Fortran comparisons, at least those might be mildly entertaining like the Go-Algol one.