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Re:Essential C (2003) [pdf] by jxub on Sunday December 30, 2018 @05:15PM (#18791680)
The GC and goroutines make it more abstracted from the metal than it looks, while lacking the conveniences of the zero-cost abstractions available in lower-level languages like Rust. The only upside of taking the opposite side of the Rust tradeoff is compile time.
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Re:Essential C (2003) [pdf] by zozbot123 on Sunday December 30, 2018 @05:47PM (#18791804)
> The only upside of taking the opposite side of the Rust tradeoff is compile time.

Not so, there are a few specialized domains where having tracing GC easily available is genuinely useful. (Pretty much anything having to do with general graphs - the sort of stuff you'd traditionally use LISP for!) Go is a great fit for these use cases.

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Re:Essential C (2003) [pdf] by freyir on Sunday December 30, 2018 @06:19PM (#18791929)
It still gives me the feel of C, despite the abstractions (which I generally appreciate).

Rust is like something else entirely.

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