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Re:Reasons for using Golang by ajays on Sunday June 12, 2011 @12:03PM (#2646692)
Even if it's "Google hype", so what? In the end, superior tools will win on their own merits. People are not idiots to be just blinded by Google's logo; Google is a teenager now, and the hype has worn off, IMHO.

Given _any_ language, I can find some non-empty problem set where that language performs badly (or is ill-suited). That does not take anything away from the language. There is no "perfect" language yet; maybe we'll get one in 5 years... [1]

[1] http://www.great-quotes.com/quote/63358

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Re:Reasons for using Golang by sid0 on Sunday June 12, 2011 @07:13PM (#2647620)
The set of problems for which Go is the best programming language to use is empty, simply because Rust exists. Rust has non-nullability, immutable shared state...
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Re:Reasons for using Golang by enneff on Sunday June 12, 2011 @08:16PM (#2647713)
Rust is nowhere near ready. A language is more than a language spec and a compiler. Its the standard library and ecosystem of tools that make a language truly useful. Go has those, Rust does not. It is unfair to both projects to compare them.
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Re:Reasons for using Golang by sid0 on Sunday June 12, 2011 @11:33PM (#2648020)
Sure, but the world would have been a better place had Go not existed and Rust had all the limelight.
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