Re:Go is not an easy language
by hombre_fatal on Monday February 22, 2021 @12:08AM
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The obvious case is embedded programming. You can run Go via a custom compiler for microcontrollers: https://tinygo.org/.
But to their point: why incur that sort of overhead for a language that doesn't necessarily give you enough conveniences to be worth it? Or rather, Rust gives you more conveniences with very little runtime overhead.
It's not exactly damning to be unable to compete with C on a microcontroller with 2K RAM, they were just pointing out the end of my comparison with C/C++.
But to their point: why incur that sort of overhead for a language that doesn't necessarily give you enough conveniences to be worth it? Or rather, Rust gives you more conveniences with very little runtime overhead.
It's not exactly damning to be unable to compete with C on a microcontroller with 2K RAM, they were just pointing out the end of my comparison with C/C++.