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Re:Go is Google's language, not ours by abhijat on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @06:39AM (#19979716)
I wouldn't call Go a systems programming language. Having a GC alone sort of removes it from that category.
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Re:Go is Google's language, not ours by mcv on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @07:51AM (#19980122)
That sounds logical, and I'm no expert on either Go or systems programming, but I've often heard of Go being referred to as a systems programming language, and on their own blog[0] they list it in third place at 37% as popular use of the language. Well after web development, admittedly, so apparently it is more a web development language than a systems programming language. I was clearly wrong on that part.

[0] https://blog.golang.org/

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Re:Go is Google's language, not ours by pjmlp on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @08:12AM (#19980276)
Mesa/Cedar, Modula-2+, Modula-3, Oberon, Oberon-2, Active Oberon, Component Pascal, D, Swift, Sing#, System C#, Common Lisp, Interlisp-D, StarLisp, Real Time Java beg to differ.
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