Beating C with 70 lines of Go

Re:Beating C with 70 lines of Go by IshKebab on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @03:36PM (#21588206)

In the sense that the Go authors used "systems language", i.e. for writing things like servers and command line tools, sure why not? Go's GC pauses are extremely short (under 1ms). That shouldn't really affect much.

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Re:Beating C with 70 lines of Go by crematoria on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @11:26PM (#21591461)

Source? People write CLI tools in Ruby and Node.js these days, so I really doubt that anybody would use the term "systems language" to refer to languages well-suited to building CLI tools.

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Re:Beating C with 70 lines of Go by IshKebab on Thursday November 21, 2019 @03:40AM (#21592393)

https://www.wired.com/2009/11/google-announces-a-new-program...

> As a systems language, Go is intended to be used for developer applications like, for example, web servers.

Couldn't find a citation for CLI tools, but that should satisfy you (since people write web servers in Ruby and Node.js too).

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