Comment by zadikian
5 days ago
Go use cases overlap the most with Java. I think the reputation you mentioned comes from Google using a lot of C++ for high-level things others would likely do in Java, so they see Go as a replacement for C++ in some areas. (assuming you meant C++ not C)
> I think the reputation you mentioned. . .
Actually no. Go was designed from the beginning as a systems language as a C replacement.
In what way does that "design" show up in Go, besides marketing?
It's replete with oddities and limitations that signal "ah, this is because systems language."
Go’s type system, for example, is very much a systems-language artifact. The designers chose structural typing because it was lighter weight, but provided enough type safety to get by. It sucks though for enterprise app development where your team (and your tooling) are desperate for nominal typing clarity and determinism.
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