Comment by gf000

4 days ago

And a fat runtime with a garbage collector. Like people can write all sorts of programs with a GC, that was never the issue.

But then just stay truthful, otherwise C# is also a system PL.

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owlstuffing  4 days ago

"Fat" runtime? Go? Nah.

Go's runtime is thin: goroutines, a GC specialized for concurrency, networking, and little else. Java, by contrast, assumes a JVM plus massive stdlibs to handle everything from enterprise apps to big-data, making its platform genuinely "fat" and layered. Other Java-tier languages, C# included, follow the same model.

  • zadikian  4 days ago

    I agree Go's runtime is as thin as runtimes get. But having a runtime at all disqualifies it from being a C replacement. Rust is trying to replace C, Go is trying to replace Java and some of C++.

  • gf000  4 days ago

    Even Rust has a runtime. Compared to that Go's is absolutely fat though.

  • lucyjojo  3 days ago

    java has had profiles for an eternity and multiple jvm implementation. it can get really really thin.

    also has modules now.