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> One of the goals behing Golang was go have C++ programmers move to the language where did you hear that ? C++ programmers didn't move to D why the hell would
by aikah 12y ago
> One of the goals behing Golang was go have C++ programmers move to the language
where did you hear that ? C++ programmers didn't move to D why the hell would they want to move to Go , a garbage collected language ?
- barosl 12y agoRob Pike, one of the creators of Go, said so: > Although we expected C++ programmers to see Go as an alternative, instead most Go programmers come from languages like Python and Ruby. Very few come from C++.[1] I thought this was obvious, considering their initial approach to promote Go: "Go is a systems language". But now they abandoned the phrasing. [1] http://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2012/06/less-is-exponentially-more.html http://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2012/06/less-is-exponentia...
- aikah 12y agoOk, well they were wrong. How can something be a "system language" when it's garbage collected ? and if people learned anything from D you don't say "X is a replacement from C++" or your language will get bad rap.
- sacado2 12y agoBy "system", I don't think they meant "kernel". I think they meant "non-user-facing program". Think server/batch programs, which are way too often programmed in C/C++ although they don't need to.