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Re:Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust by kerkeslager on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @03:06PM (#22240333)
Yes, it's possible: that's generational garbage collection. But last I heard, Google decided writing a modern GC was too complicated.

They're probably right, because Google doesn't need it. But for everyone else who decided to use a language designed to solve Google's fairly-unique problems as if it were a general-purpose language: that kind of sucks, doesn't it?

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Re:Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust by terminaljunkid on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @04:36AM (#22245345)
The fact seems to be that the go team is not so well funded as it seems. Go is not Google's language in the sense C# is MS' language or Java was Sun language.
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