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Re:C vs GO by heretohelp on Thursday June 14, 2012 @02:10PM (#4112713)
Go is highly inappropriate in embedded environments so your pipedream betrays a naivete to systems programming.
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Re:C vs GO by xyproto on Thursday June 14, 2012 @09:07PM (#4114437) 

  * You can turn off the GC.
  * You can compile with gccgo.
  * You can call assembly code from Go.
What is the major hindrance from using Go in embedded environments?
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Re:C vs GO by Graphon on Friday June 15, 2012 @06:23PM (#4119025)
Today's embedded is not tomorrow's embedded.

In 10 years your sunglasses will have more compute power and memory than today's smartphone .

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