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Re:Dart 1.9 by aikah on Friday March 27, 2015 @12:26AM (#9274760)
> One of the goals behing Golang was go have C++ programmers move to the language

where did you hear that ? C++ programmers didn't move to D why the hell would they want to move to Go , a garbage collected language ?

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Re:Dart 1.9 by barosl on Friday March 27, 2015 @02:11AM (#9274966)
Rob Pike, one of the creators of Go, said so:

> Although we expected C++ programmers to see Go as an alternative, instead most Go programmers come from languages like Python and Ruby. Very few come from C++.[1]

I thought this was obvious, considering their initial approach to promote Go: "Go is a systems language". But now they abandoned the phrasing.

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

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Re:Dart 1.9 by aikah on Friday March 27, 2015 @02:49AM (#9275017)
Ok, well they were wrong. How can something be a "system language" when it's garbage collected ? and if people learned anything from D you don't say "X is a replacement from C++" or your language will get bad rap.
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Re:Dart 1.9 by sacado2 on Friday March 27, 2015 @10:31AM (#9276467)
By "system", I don't think they meant "kernel". I think they meant "non-user-facing program". Think server/batch programs, which are way too often programmed in C/C++ although they don't need to.
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