8 Jun
2020
8 Jun
'20
7:02 a.m.
On Jun 7, 2020, at 8:52 AM, Larry McVoy
<lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
On Sun, Jun 07, 2020 at 11:26:45AM -0400, Clem Cole wrote:
Several years ago, this was a job talk I gave, based on my experience at the time
developing a pretty nifty system that never found traction.
The new job (I got it!) doesn’t use Go, so I’ve grudgingly gone back to Python. But I
stand by most of what I wrote (although I am sure parts of it are outdated and wrong
now).
The tl;dr is the title of the talk:
https://athornton.github.io/go-it-mostly-doesnt-suck
I make the claim that Go *is* pretty much C with 35 years of lessons learned about what
did and didn’t work in C, and 35 years of machine time getting cheaper and programmer time
getting more expensive.
Adam
That said, I personally am the most excited about
Go theses day, but I'm
also thinking Rust looks pretty interesting, but my experience with both
compared to C is extremely nominal. Neither language is used for anything
in production in our world at this point.
If I had to move to a modern language it would be Go. I looked at Rust
and barfed.