On 23 September 2017 at 01:51, <sylvain.bertr...@gmail.com> wrote: > This topic was discussed earlier: no, go is not worth it. It's really a bad > compromise against simple and explicit C. Wrong again: simple and explicit C > is
Not sure who came up with that conclusion. Granted, you can solve many problems surprinsingly well with plain C. But I consider Go as a suckless option because of: - The only OO-way almost done right - CSP - statically linked binaries The GC in Go is a consequence of its concurrency approach -- when you solve problems with a high degree of concurrency, maintaining memory properly can become a hard task. And Go adopted CSP quite seriously in contrast to regular imperative languages that don't even provide language constructs that come close. I cannot confirm that suckless has ever been opposed to Go. BR, Anselm
