Poll: How many programming languages do you command fluently?

Re:Poll: How many programming languages do you command fluen... by jerf on Saturday January 04, 2014 @02:58PM (#7012617)

I wouldn't call Go's typing "very weak". It's not Haskell, but it's still a fairly typical manifestly-typed language like C# or Java (minus contra- and/or covariance), and you certainly can't just slop values around without thinking about their type. "Very weak" I'd reserve for Perl, Javascript, or (I think) PHP, with their propensity to turn "anything" into a string or a number out from underneath you.

It is generally stronger than C's, in that C lets you be quite... creative... in how you cast values. Go qua Go does not let you do that, though it does have an escape hatch via the unsafe package that lets you do anything C can, mostly used for interfacing with C.

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Re:Poll: How many programming languages do you command fluen... by jrockway on Saturday January 04, 2014 @10:02PM (#7014297)

Go does indeed add some nice checks over C. For example, given:

    type foo int

    var (
	    A foo = iota
	    B
	    C
	    D
    )

    func bar(x foo) ...

It's an error to write:

   bar(2)

That's enough typing to prevent many types of annoying mistakes.

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