Comment by gf000
5 days ago
How is Go not high level? What makes it "systems" language? That's just marketing.
It is a language with a fat runtime, running a garbage collector. You just burn it into the binary and call it a day.
5 days ago
How is Go not high level? What makes it "systems" language? That's just marketing.
It is a language with a fat runtime, running a garbage collector. You just burn it into the binary and call it a day.
(just like modern Java can burn its runtime / GC into the binary)
No, not just like. You're downplaying significant differences between the two that do in fact matter. So much so in fact, that you're just wrong. Stop spreading misinformation.
GraalVM indeed does a lot more than Go, it's a full optimizing compiler while Go does very little optimiations.
But burning a JVM next to a jar file is not hard at all, one could make something like cosmopolitan.