Re:Introducing MIR
by pjmlp on Thursday April 28, 2016 @06:06AM
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I did like Oberon a lot, and appreciate Oberon-2 influence on Go, but I think there is a lost opportunity in a company like Google sponsoring such a design, when it could have done so much more helping advancing the state of art for mainstream developers.
In that regard, Apple and Microsoft do so much more to help developers improve their skill sets, given the programming languages and tools that they have brought into the market.
However, I do advocate Go for the use cases where developers still make use of C for user space applications, without any real need for C's low level features.
Also do believe that Go can actually be used for systems programming, even if not all scenarios from systems programming like for example, 8 and 16 bit embedded processors, can be covered.
The language is similar enough to Oberon and Limbo for it to be possible, just needs someone to write a bare metal runtime.
In that regard, Apple and Microsoft do so much more to help developers improve their skill sets, given the programming languages and tools that they have brought into the market.
However, I do advocate Go for the use cases where developers still make use of C for user space applications, without any real need for C's low level features.
Also do believe that Go can actually be used for systems programming, even if not all scenarios from systems programming like for example, 8 and 16 bit embedded processors, can be covered.
The language is similar enough to Oberon and Limbo for it to be possible, just needs someone to write a bare metal runtime.