Re:Grappling with Go
by pjmlp on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @04:44AM
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Because they kind of are, even though they are targeted to different set of skilled developers and Go happens to be a bit spartan in features.
For any type of application, including user space drivers, that can be developed with the constraints of a sub-millisecond GC pauses, GC is a good language, in spite of its stance on generics.
As for kernel space, Go could eventually be used as well, in spite of GC hate, as academia including Microsoft have proven a few times.
Me personally, I prefer Rust, but I do see others would think otherwise.
For any type of application, including user space drivers, that can be developed with the constraints of a sub-millisecond GC pauses, GC is a good language, in spite of its stance on generics.
As for kernel space, Go could eventually be used as well, in spite of GC hate, as academia including Microsoft have proven a few times.
Me personally, I prefer Rust, but I do see others would think otherwise.