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Re:A year with Go by caoilte on Friday June 05, 2015 @08:27PM (#9669037)
Adrian Cockcroft does and I don't disrespect his opinion even though I'd far rather functional languages won the developer mindshare myself.

We shouldn't be under-selling how light the Go footprint is. In the long run it may be one of the few languages to compete with unikernels.

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Re:A year with Go by Jweb_Guru on Friday June 05, 2015 @10:07PM (#9669303)
> In the long run it may be one of the few languages to compete with unikernels.

Can you please clarify what this means? I don't really understand what it would mean for a language to compete with a unikernel.

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