Re: [go-nuts] Re: Generics, please go away!

2020-12-22 Thread Gerald Henriksen
On Tue, 22 Dec 2020 22:56:32 +0100, you wrote: >> He did explicitly said in the last paragraph that Go is not driven by >> pools (aka surveys). > >Please re-read! > >The problem is that his post is quite contradictory. On the one hand he >states that "Go is not and never has been a poll-driven lan

Re: [go-nuts] Re: Upgrade to Go1.12.7 problem [SOLVED]

2019-08-09 Thread Gerald Henriksen
On Mon, 5 Aug 2019 18:58:02 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: >I discovered that /usr/local/go was still version 1.11 for whatever reason >Ubuntu did not update that directory when I installed go via apt/dpkg This is correct behaviour, see below. >I therefore downloaded >https://dl.google.com/go/go1.12

Re: [go-nuts] Re: Interesting public commentary on Go...

2019-05-24 Thread Gerald Henriksen
On Fri, 24 May 2019 01:30:02 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: >Well, the two enries are listed at the given URI, quite far apart and in >the opposite order. The list is alphabetical. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from t

Re: [go-nuts] Re: Interesting public commentary on Go...

2019-05-23 Thread Gerald Henriksen
On Fri, 24 May 2019 07:40:52 +1000, you wrote: >The last sentence of the article is not correct. The name Go is not >trademarked by Google, at least as a programming language trademark. There >are other things Google makes called Go (an interesting signal on its own) >and they might be trademarked

Re: [go-nuts] Re: Interesting public commentary on Go...

2019-05-23 Thread Gerald Henriksen
On Fri, 24 May 2019 07:40:52 +1000, you wrote: >The last sentence of the article is not correct. The name Go is not >trademarked by Google, at least as a programming language trademark. There >are other things Google makes called Go (an interesting signal on its own) >and they might be trademarked

Re: [go-nuts] Re: Go 2 Proposal Comments

2018-10-28 Thread Gerald Henriksen
On Sun, 28 Oct 2018 09:31:30 -0500, you wrote: >To clarify, think of the performance improvements in the GC in Go from 1.1 to >1.11. Amazing. But you only get these via recompiling which is a barrier. Many >java installations frequently get performance improvements with no code >changes or reco

Re: [go-nuts] Re: Go 2 Proposal Comments

2018-10-28 Thread Gerald Henriksen
On Sat, 27 Oct 2018 14:33:32 -0500, you wrote: >What exactly are you referring to? I wasn’t aware of Android no longer being >Java. At Google I/O 2017 the Android team announced that Kotlin would be supported as a first class language along with Java, including full support in Android Studio. W

Re: [go-nuts] Re: gomobile: what's the right way to make widgets?

2018-10-27 Thread Gerald Henriksen
On Sat, 27 Oct 2018 07:02:46 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: >I wish go2 team would focus on cross-platform GUI rather than nobody-needed >generics after all. There is nothing you can do atm, write your own library >I guess... An acceptable cross-platform GUI is a major undertaking to create an even ha

Re: [go-nuts] Re: Go 2 Proposal Comments

2018-10-27 Thread Gerald Henriksen
On Fri, 26 Oct 2018 22:31:46 -0500, you wrote: >First, there is simply no debate, Java += Android, and you have the most >successful language/platform ever. NO debate. Which explains why, as soon as Google gave them the choice, developers began the stampede away from Java to Kotlin. Java may b

Re: [go-nuts] Go language should become an ANSI and ISO standard.

2018-10-11 Thread Gerald Henriksen
On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 06:15:16 +0200, you wrote: >But that is not what I am getting at. Five years ago I was somewhat >involved in the effort to make Ruby an ISO standard language. From the get >go it was a largely bureaucratic effort. We specified a common sub set of a >then already old version of

Re: [go-nuts] Go license and fitness for purpose

2018-05-13 Thread Gerald Henriksen
On Sun, 13 May 2018 13:01:46 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: >I don't think this is the attitude behind GCC, or maybe it is. I want to >write programs that do things worth money and hope to use Go or GCC to do >so (including working with and on those projects for free), but if they >might include unnec

Re: [go-nuts] Windows 10 desktop packaging

2018-05-09 Thread Gerald Henriksen
On Wed, 9 May 2018 11:12:48 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: >Am going nuts trying to work out how to package a windows installer for >windows10 and sign it. > >Microsoft are turning windows 10 basic version into a locked down system and >so you need to make applications using their new appx format. > >D

Re: [go-nuts] Elphaba Chess

2017-12-04 Thread Gerald Henriksen
On Sun, 3 Dec 2017 20:07:45 -0800 (PST), you wrote: >I'll bet if Mozilla had used Go to write FireFox, rather than invent their >own language, Google would have done something to stop them. You are aware that Google helps fund Firefox (through their agreement to be the default search engine)? >

Re: [go-nuts] Elphaba Chess

2017-12-03 Thread Gerald Henriksen
On Sat, 2 Dec 2017 11:37:46 -0800 (PST), you wrote: >Google is not going to be happy if somebody uses Go to compete against >Google. AFAIK, most if not all of Google's money comes from selling >advertising on their >search-engine. Another view - Google search only works because people / compan

Re: [go-nuts] Golang performance benchmarks on arm64 (Qualcomm Centriq 2400)

2017-11-09 Thread Gerald Henriksen
On Wed, 8 Nov 2017 13:57:03 -0800 (PST), you wrote: >"Go support for aarch64 is quite disappointing. >Qualcomm and other ARMv8 >vendors intends to put significant engineering resources to amend this >situation, but really any one can contribute to Go. So if you want to live >your mark, now is

Re: [go-nuts] Re: go on Windows 10 from the bash shell (and the cmd shell)

2017-10-13 Thread Gerald Henriksen
On Thu, 12 Oct 2017 22:08:44 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: > >On Thursday, October 12, 2017 at 8:31:52 PM UTC-4, Gerald wrote: >> >> The MSI is a Windows application, whereas apt-get would install the >> Linux binary of go. >> >> WSL has you actually running Linux binaries on Windows unless you >> sp

Re: [go-nuts] Re: go on Windows 10 from the bash shell (and the cmd shell)

2017-10-12 Thread Gerald Henriksen
On Thu, 12 Oct 2017 00:03:41 -0400, you wrote: >Other than the file names, I'm not convinced that there is any actual >difference >between the go.exe you get with the MSI and the go binary that apt-get >installs There is a difference. The MSI is a Windows application, whereas apt-get would insta