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Re:Java 26 is here, and with it a solid foundation for the f... by gf000 on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @03:34AM (#47422683)
How is Go not high level? What makes it "systems" language? That's just marketing.

It is a language with a fat runtime, running a garbage collector. You just burn it into the binary and call it a day.

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Re:Java 26 is here, and with it a solid foundation for the f... by Tostino on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @09:12AM (#47425390)
(just like modern Java can burn its runtime / GC into the binary)
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Re:Java 26 is here, and with it a solid foundation for the f... by Mawr on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @02:08PM (#47429169)
No, not just like. You're downplaying significant differences between the two that do in fact matter. So much so in fact, that you're just wrong. Stop spreading misinformation.
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Re:Java 26 is here, and with it a solid foundation for the f... by gf000 on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @08:07PM (#47433001)
GraalVM indeed does a lot more than Go, it's a full optimizing compiler while Go does very little optimiations.

But burning a JVM next to a jar file is not hard at all, one could make something like cosmopolitan.

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