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Re:Apple might be running a web crawler written in Go by melling on Thursday November 06, 2014 @10:32AM (#8567429)
Can you explain what that means? Which language features is Swift missing?
Re:Apple might be running a web crawler written in Go by wyager on Thursday November 06, 2014 @11:10AM (#8567647)
It's a perfectly reasonable general purpose language. However, it doesn't have a low-overhead green thread mechanism, and the standard library has no particular emphasis on network tools.

Even as an outspoken critic of go, I recognize that it has quite a strong networking toolset.