Go Is a Great Fit for Lambda

Re:Go Is a Great Fit for Lambda by _ek94 on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @07:53PM (#16173661)

I think the go team does deserve credit for making compilation speed a priority when other languages of the same generation have tended not to.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Go Is a Great Fit for Lambda by pjmlp on Thursday January 18, 2018 @01:02AM (#16175045)

Sure, but lets not pretend that is something they came up with, unique to Go toolchain.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Go Is a Great Fit for Lambda by KirinDave on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @09:18PM (#16174107)

Lots of languages have fantastic compile speed, they've just decided to have their compilers do a lot more work.

You can argue that fast compilation IS a feature and that new language options should be evaluated, but it's unfair to say it's "not a priority" even for languages like Scala.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Go Is a Great Fit for Lambda by erik_seaberg on Thursday January 18, 2018 @01:32PM (#16179874)

> they've just decided to have their compilers do a lot more work

This. Compiling C++ would be a lot faster if you made the developer manually expand all the templates into tedious boilerplate before starting the compiler, but it's not a good tradeoff to make.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Go Is a Great Fit for Lambda by dman on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @08:52PM (#16173972)

Why are we forgetting the amount of money spent developing fast JITs for Javascript here?

[ Parent | on HN ]