Re:Why Go and Rust are not competitors
by rakoo on Thursday July 02, 2015 @09:35AM
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> they were trying to write a language that filled a role similar to C and C++
... as used in Google, ie not necessarily the low-level stuff that drives a network card, but more the high-level systems (as in, server software) like the one that powers dl.google.com (see the famous rewrite by Brad Fitzpatrick). This is not a task that was necessarily best suited to C nor C++, so they wanted a better language for this.
... as used in Google, ie not necessarily the low-level stuff that drives a network card, but more the high-level systems (as in, server software) like the one that powers dl.google.com (see the famous rewrite by Brad Fitzpatrick). This is not a task that was necessarily best suited to C nor C++, so they wanted a better language for this.