Comment by bbkane

5 hours ago

I thank Go for this. Go's compilation times seemed to inspire other language devs

I doubt Go has any sizable effect on the community of programming language developers. Probably Pascal has more impact on this.

  • Pascal has a lot of influence on this, but Go as well! My PL friends often talk about Go's benefits and flaws when thinking about advancing other their own projects or improving the mainstream languages they work on.

Go changed something, not sure if 20 or 21, where it will download the Go compiler of all your third-party which don’t match yours. It slows things down.

  • Yeah, not a fan of the idea that now the standard library is distributed as source code and packages are compiled on demand.