Re:Why Go and Not Rust?
by ospider on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @10:38PM
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Go can not be simple, because software itself is a complex beast, language really does not matter.
One thing that gophers say a lot is the count of Go's keywords is minimal. This is true literally, only 25 keywords as of Go 1.13. But it does not reduce the complexity of writing code, it just hides them.
For example, Go does not have the `new` keyword, but it has `make` function, which is so powerful that one of my friends actually thought `make` was a keyword of Go.
One thing that gophers say a lot is the count of Go's keywords is minimal. This is true literally, only 25 keywords as of Go 1.13. But it does not reduce the complexity of writing code, it just hides them.
For example, Go does not have the `new` keyword, but it has `make` function, which is so powerful that one of my friends actually thought `make` was a keyword of Go.