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Re:Google’s Go has some coders raving by kyllo on Thursday May 30, 2013 @11:23AM (#5793043)
I agree, Go seems designed to solve a lot of the same problems with C/C++ that Java was designed to solve. That's probably why the creators of Go are fierce critics of Java, because Go is meant to replace Java (which was meant to replace C/C++). They operate in the same problem space, so they're going to be competitors.
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Re:Google’s Go has some coders raving by ExpiredLink on Thursday May 30, 2013 @02:17PM (#5794175)
Go was meant to replace C++ as 'systems programming language'.
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Re:Google’s Go has some coders raving by trailfox on Thursday May 30, 2013 @03:22PM (#5794619)
In practice it's better suited to apps typically written in Java.
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Re:Google’s Go has some coders raving by kyllo on Thursday May 30, 2013 @05:59PM (#5795521)
Yeah, I get that feeling too, and I think it's because of the garbage collection. You use C++ when you want to manage memory allocation manually.
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