On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Benoit T <benoit.triq...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 06:29:01AM +0100, Uriel wrote: >> Go is the only hope for the future of the software industry, the only >> weapon with a chance of killing the abominable mutant monster of C++ >> and the double-headed zombie of Java/C#. > > hear hear! there has to be a better way :) > >> Having Go, there is no excuse to write user space code in C ever >> again; as for kernel space, we will see (specially once they deploy >> the new concurrent garbage collector), rob said he would like somebody >> to try building a kernel in Go, this would be fun, and might even >> produce something quite useful. > > This is happening already (although "happening" might depend on how you > judge the progress of a project) : http://www.bitc-lang.org and > http://www.coyotos.org
I have meet the main coyotos dev, and he is a very nice and smart person, but coyotos is 100% academic ivory tower work, Go is 100% practical stuff to get real work done. In all the years coyotos has been out, I don't think anyone has really used it for anything, Go already runs http://golang.org and has quite a bit of useful software (and more is being written every day). uriel > Actually, if someone can offer an opinion on Go vs. BitC, that would be > interesting to hear. I vaguely suspect that BitC takes a bit more away > than Go (and vastly less than Haskell) for the sake of analyzable > semantics. > > cheers > > -- > Benoit Triquet <benoit.triquet at gmail.com> > .''`. > : :' : We are debian.org. Lower your prices, surrender your code. > `. `' We will add your hardware and software distinctiveness to > `- our own. Resistance is futile. > >
