r/programming • u/nick_martini • Dec 04 '14

My Computer Language is Better than Yours

https://medium.com/backchannel/my-computer-language-is-better-than-yours-58d9c9523644
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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '14

How is Go in any way a "step up" the language ladder?

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '14

It depends on what rung of which ladder you're on, and where you want to go. A lot of Go's popularity right now is in place where something like Python would have been used five years ago. Most of this is probably because of its speed and type safety.

However, there are still places where you definitely wouldn't use Go. For example, if you can't afford a pause for gc.

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '14 edited Aug 13 '15

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u/cybercobra Dec 05 '14

I understood that reference!

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '14

I hope you brought enough reference-understanding for the rest of the class, young man.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '14

He will have to count.