Comment by owlstuffing
4 days ago
> I think the reputation you mentioned. . .
Actually no. Go was designed from the beginning as a systems language as a C replacement.
4 days ago
> 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.
The error handling is like a systems language for sure, I'll agree on that.
But where do Go's docs or founders call it a C replacement? gf000 asked where this is mentioned besides marketing, but I don't see it in the marketing either.
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