Why I Program in Go

Re:Why I Program in Go by Raphael_Amiard on Sunday January 06, 2013 @10:45AM (#5016562)

Just one point :

> C++ doesn't have this [Tools for writing IDEs quickly]

Well indeed it does, libclang does exactly that, and quite well. As a result, you have plugins for Vim, Sublime Text and others providing autocompletion and in editor compiltation and error reporting.

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Re:Why I Program in Go by MichaelSalib on Sunday January 06, 2013 @12:19PM (#5016844)

And it only took 25 years since the language was born for the those tools to become available!

In all seriousness, C++ is extremely difficult for automated tools to work with, including C++ compilers.

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