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Re:Servo: Inside Mozilla's mission to reinvent the web browser by Sammi on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @07:04AM (#7304365)
Go was never supposed to replace C++, it was supposed to replace Java in server applications. Happily it seems Python and Ruby developers are finding good use in Go too.

How was a garbage collection language ever supposed to take the place of a manual memory management language? The area that C++ shines in is systems programming, and you can't do that with Go, because of garbage collection. Rust on the other hand, is precisely made for systems programming.

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Re:Servo: Inside Mozilla's mission to reinvent the web browser by scribu on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @08:22AM (#7304707)
> Go was never supposed to replace C++, it was supposed to replace Java in server applications.

That is simply not the case. Rob Pike himself describes how we was working on a large C++ application when he thought of creating Go:

http://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2012/06/less-is-exponentia...

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