Go at Google: Language Design in the Service of Software Engineering

Re:Go at Google: Language Design in the Service of Software ... by enneff on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @11:40PM (#4874915)

Go doesn't have macros, as they're a whole other can of worms, so the simplification one might use in C doesn't apply to Go. :-)

Go has great support for closures, so you tend to use function types more often (or perhaps just more naturally) than in C.

It is just a matter of getting used to it. I switch back and forth between Go and other languages, and it doesn't bother me. (The thing that does get me is forgetting to use semicolons in other languages.)

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Re:Go at Google: Language Design in the Service of Software ... by paupino_masano on Wednesday December 05, 2012 @12:31AM (#4875048)

Thanks again, I really appreciate your input! I'm going to have to switch between the two to get a feel for it (and like you say, get used to it). I'm a big fan for language grammars (I enjoy writing them myself) so am looking forward to digging into it some more to see how it all works :)

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