On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Aled Gest <himse...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/11/11 Preben Randhol <rand...@pvv.org>: >> Syntactically the language seems a bit confusing at first and >> unfortunately too similar to C. > > I don't get what people have against the C syntax. It's the cleanest > and most logical syntax I've come across so far.
Go's syntax is considerably cleaner and more rational; it takes a bit to get used to, but after a while it is a non-issue (and I suspect after a longer time of using it, going back to C might be a bit painful). > Has anybody had any experience compiling Go on BSD yet? According to > the install instructions the compiler only supports Linux and Darwin. There are people actively working on ports to DragonflyBSD, FreeBSD and OpenBSD as far as I know, the FreeBSD port seems to be done bar a few bugs, and probably will get committed any day (some bits already went in yesterday). > My suspicions are it's going to have the same drawbacks as C++ Your "suspicions" based on what? Some crack you were smoking? > with a > different syntax and possibly more dependencies, What dependencies? It has a runtime and a set of libraries, no different from C++, plus it already has two quite independent implementations in good shape, can't say the same of C++ (where all implementations suck, by design). uriel > but I wouldn't mind > trying it out to see what it's like. > >
