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Re:Grappling with Go by pcwalton on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @12:07PM (#13599904)
GC pause time is not the only criterion, and focusing on it to the exclusion of all else is problematic.

I used to have to explain this in a HN comment every time it came up, but now Mike Hearn has written up [1] better than I ever could, so I can just link there :)

[1]: https://blog.plan99.net/modern-garbage-collection-911ef4f8bd...

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Re:Grappling with Go by pjmlp on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @01:35PM (#13600741)
I agree, but still Go can be usable in quite a few scenarios.

Sure it has quite a spartan type system and I would rather use something else for my own work.

On the other hand, as an ex-Oberon user I am aware of many use cases that Go can easily fulfil and like to make people aware of it, more Go less C is good.

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