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Re:Tor in a safer language: Network team update from Amsterdam by pjmlp on Saturday April 01, 2017 @04:57PM (#14014126)
Without support for meta-classes, annotations, generators, iterators and list comprehensions it surely is worse.
Re:Tor in a safer language: Network team update from Amsterdam by SamWhited on Saturday April 01, 2017 @10:39PM (#14015457)
Unless you're one of the people (like me) who considers its lack of many of those things a feature. More features doesn't necessarily make something "better" and less features doesn't necessarily make it "worse" (whatever your definition of "better" or "worse").
Re:Tor in a safer language: Network team update from Amsterdam by pjmlp on Sunday April 02, 2017 @01:51AM (#14016004)
No I am not, I am no longer programming in the mid-90's and even on those days, Turbo Pascal had more features than Go.

I only advocate Go as a replacement for those that would use C for user space applications, or possibly some kind of low level stuff.

If Python and Ruby eco-systems had blessed compilers, instead of just CPython and MRI, I doubt people would be flocking to Go.

We already see this happening in the Ruby world, just let Crystal become a bit more mature.

Re:Tor in a safer language: Network team update from Amsterdam by abecedarius on Saturday April 01, 2017 @08:47PM (#14015050)
Goroutines and channels can substitute for generators and iterators, with maybe a downside of being too much more expressive.