Re:Rob Pike: Go at Google
by eternalban on Saturday October 27, 2012 @12:22PM
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If it didn't, the fault would be mine. A dip to unsafe and it is effectively as bare metal as Go.
> The real question to ask is how good a language is for the large scale software design...
Agreed. A comparison with Java at this point would be unfair given the massive investment made by the industry in tweaking of the platform over nearly 2 decades. I think Go is a very promising language.
One simply hopes that the leading lights of the language/industry do not stoop to making threadbare (npi;) claims of superiority over other, equally viable, languages. After all, "it's just code". (PL religious wars are entirely boring.)
> debugging
Go has very good profiling and data race [1] detection tools. As far as debugging goes, I'm in the printf school of debugging (even on Java) and so far so good, so I can not speak to that.
> The real question to ask is how good a language is for the large scale software design...
Agreed. A comparison with Java at this point would be unfair given the massive investment made by the industry in tweaking of the platform over nearly 2 decades. I think Go is a very promising language.
One simply hopes that the leading lights of the language/industry do not stoop to making threadbare (npi;) claims of superiority over other, equally viable, languages. After all, "it's just code". (PL religious wars are entirely boring.)
> debugging
Go has very good profiling and data race [1] detection tools. As far as debugging goes, I'm in the printf school of debugging (even on Java) and so far so good, so I can not speak to that.
[1]: it is not a pure CSP system. See this very interesting thread: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/golang-nuts/8k59RgkeJ6s/di... (grep for Andrei Alexandrescu of D fame and read on ..)