Re:Why Crystal Is My Next Language
by akavel on Monday June 11, 2018 @05:14AM
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Personally, I'm actually a long time C++ programmer (and loving it, at the time!), who abandoned it and run away full steam with Go (loving it even more). So, always when I hear the above claim, I wonder: am I, like, "the only one"? A curious specimen? Or is there more of us, just maybe we don't speak up?
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>I wonder: am I, like, "the only one"? A curious specimen
Considering that Go doesn't even do well (and has horrible library support) for most of the stuff C++ is used for (GUI apps, 3D, AAA games, systems programming, high performance scientific calculations, etc), probably yes.
Now, if you did network servers with C++, probably Go is a better/easier/smaller surface fit.
I worked as a C++ developer for three years and switched to Go development this year. I used to love making a "generic" solution to a given problem using templates in C++. Now I find myself without even a decent data structure in the Go standard library. Have you seen the way priority queues are implemented? Just a terrible design choice.