Re: [go-nuts] Fuchsia Programming Language Policy

2020-02-25 Thread Jon Conradt
It is nice to see the clarification. I can understand not using a GC language in the OS, but the previous wording did sound like it was unwelcome in their user land tools. Progress in getting their port of Go into the CI system would be encouraging. Jon On Tuesday, February 25, 2020 at 8:45

Re: [go-nuts] Fuchsia Programming Language Policy

2020-02-25 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 9:22 AM Jon Conradt wrote: > > The Fuchsia Programming Language Policy gives some insight into the > experience the Fuchsia team has had with Go, and it doesn't sound good. > > "The Fuchsia Platform Source Tree has had negative implementation experience > using Go. The sy

Re: [go-nuts] Fuchsia Programming Language Policy

2020-02-25 Thread Jesper Louis Andersen
On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 6:22 PM Jon Conradt wrote: > The Fuchsia Programming Language Policy > > gives > some insight into the experience the Fuchsia team has had with Go, and it > does

Re: [go-nuts] Fuchsia Programming Language Policy

2020-02-25 Thread andrey mirtchovski
my take: - c++ programmers are going to c++ program. film at 11 (rob pike had a talk about that) - dart has UI - rust is fashionable, but scary (if you've done rust you'll know why) yes, go was touted as a systems programming language, but it meant "distributed systems". had that been made clear f

Re: [go-nuts] Fuchsia Programming Language Policy

2020-02-25 Thread Manlio Perillo
And the one that is good at both memory management and concurrency has properties of the language that are not yet well-understood. Manlio On Tuesday, February 25, 2020 at 7:21:00 PM UTC+1, Michael Jones wrote: > > Actually, you should read the whole note -- it's fun. Half of the > languages a

Re: [go-nuts] Fuchsia Programming Language Policy

2020-02-25 Thread Michael Jones
Actually, you should read the whole note -- it's fun. Half of the languages are bad because of memory leaks, the other half are bad because of having GC; half are bad because of difficult asynchronism, the other half are bad because of having a runtime. etc. It reads like an imperiously-worded tau

Re: [go-nuts] Fuchsia Programming Language Policy

2020-02-25 Thread Mohamed Yousif
It seems they are betting high on Dart/flutter and their front end is already written with flutter. The assessment seems to be pretty much the same as for Dart. Dart won with the ui side, while go was competing with C. On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 at 7:22 PM, Jon Conradt wrote: > The Fuchsia Programming