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Re:Ask HN: Go. Flavor of the month or here to stay? by gravedave on Friday January 30, 2015 @12:39PM (#8973160)
Seems to be here to stay, but I can't quite figure out why. The only thing I liked about it when I tried it out was the gotool, but it was hardly a reason for me to switch, given that I find the language itself kinda poor. Sure, it has cute syntax, but doesn't seem to provide much else that I couldn't do in another language, especially with contenders like Rust and Nim, or just plain old C, which is well-supported almost everywhere.
Re:Ask HN: Go. Flavor of the month or here to stay? by khyryk on Friday January 30, 2015 @03:43PM (#8974372)
It's basically an unremarkable C-ish language with an advanced green threading library built in. Channels and green threads aren't that difficult to replicate, but select is.