Comment by anthk
9 hours ago
C++ created disasters on maintenance. The best could happen to C++ it's to be killed for once et all with Go as a systems' language and Rust maybe for the rest.
9 hours ago
C++ created disasters on maintenance. The best could happen to C++ it's to be killed for once et all with Go as a systems' language and Rust maybe for the rest.
Go could have learnt a few lessons from the languages that predated it, instead like the authors originally did with C, it was more fun to create their own thing, and leave a few warts that will never be fixed as Go will never leave beyond 1.<increment counter>.
At least it is much safer than C will ever be.
Rust still needs to get rid of its C++ dependency on LLVM, and eventually GCC.
Go learnt everything from plan9 C and Limbo which are pretty much the refined versions of Unix, C and something being the core of Inferno.
It's pretty much good enough maybe not for operating systems, but ideal for network-waiting daemons. It uses far more RAM than a core written in C, but for something built for the future, in 2030 it won't be that bloated. Specially when were are seeing Electron bound aberrations and even JS ridden crap under Gnome and Windows 11 for trivial tasks.
Yes Go is an improvement over C, with Alef and Limbo learnings, and some Oberon-2 in the mix, pity that they forgot about everyone else in the programming language community.
Proper enumerations instead of iota/const, generators as language feature instead of callback gimmicks, generics still have a few sharp corners, the new Do approach, plugins half done, verbose error handling,....