Re:Linux Namespaces and Go Don't Mix
by jankedeen on Friday June 02, 2017 @06:56PM
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Better C++ than Go or Rust. Antecedents and track record counts. Young people like the new thing. Go and Rust are capitalizing on that. Learn C. Take the time..it takes a
couple years and some pain to learn it and then you will be amply rewarded. These languages (go|rust) are reactive and suffice for some purposes but they really kind of suck in every other possible way.
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I'm old(ish), have worked professionally with C, and I think I have to disagree with you. Certainly, learn some C; it's the language on which all of our platforms are currently built.
But, building new things in C? Nah. I don't see any reason for that. Since C was designed, we've ("we" as in our industry, not specifically me and you) learned a lot and our systems have grown massively in all dimensions. It would be optimistic to assume we don't need different tools 40+ years on.