"100% of our production system is now running Go"

Re:"100% of our production system is now running Go" by draven on Friday August 31, 2012 @07:51AM (#4459235)

I think the problem with saying that Go can be used as a C++ replacement is that the statement is too vague. The problem space in which Go is a great tool and the one in which C++ is a great solution have a big overlap. But that does not mean that you will solve a given problem in this overlapping space the same way. Both languages have a different set of trade-offs.

If you need a typesafe, generic sorted set with strict efficiency needs (or things like precise control over memory layout and such) then by all means go for C++, it's been designed for that kind of constraints.

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Re:"100% of our production system is now running Go" by luriel on Friday August 31, 2012 @10:47AM (#4459927)

> If you need a typesafe, generic sorted set with strict efficiency needs

When people ask for things like this, I can't help to think that what they want is not generic at all, they want something very specific to the problem they are solving, in those cases just writing custom data structures is the way to go in any language anyway.

It is the way it has been done in C for decades too.

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Re:"100% of our production system is now running Go" by kragen on Saturday September 01, 2012 @11:50AM (#4464041)

You may be able to write the custom data structures more easily with the STL than in C.

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