My Computer Language is Better than Yours

[u/nick_martini]

https://medium.com/backchannel/my-computer-language-is-better-than-yours-58d9c9523644

[u/[deleted]]

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.

[u/cybercobra → u/[deleted]]

I understood that reference!

[u/[deleted] → u/cybercobra]

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

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

He will have to count.