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Re:Why has CPU frequency ceased to grow? (2014) by quadcore on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @10:23AM (#16430056)
Well, go isn't really a high-level language which maps can be seen as a feature of. The idea behind go, I believe, is to focus and provide innovative system-level features.
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Re:Why has CPU frequency ceased to grow? (2014) by eropple on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @02:27PM (#16432184)
Go is not a language for "system-level features" in the first place. Its garbage collector largely precludes it from that in any modern context.

That it can't do something effectively does not mean that it shouldn't or didn't mean to. (And users can't really fix it, because hey, no generics. Sigh.)

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Re:Why has CPU frequency ceased to grow? (2014) by quadcore on Thursday February 22, 2018 @02:29AM (#16435857)
Go is not a language for "system-level features" in the first place. Its garbage collector largely precludes it from that in any modern context.

I'm pretty sure I disagree with that largely because Go is low-level enough so that the GC is easily handled.

And users can't really fix it, because hey, no generics. Sigh.

Users can fix it by writing languages on top of Go (particularly dynamic ones).

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