Gary Willoughby: "Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers"

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On Friday, 27 March 2015 at 06:53:01 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 3/26/2015 11:40 PM, "Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQi?= 
> <ola.fosheim.grostad+dlang at gmail.com>" wrote:
>> Go can move stacks and extend them.
>
> That has no value on 64 bit systems,

It has.

> and is not a language issue (it's an implementation issue).

It is if you cannot control references to the stack.

>> Go is closer to having a low latency GC.
>
> I.e. it doesn't have one.

Comes in Go 1.5.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wmjrocXIWTr1JxU-3EQBI6BK6KgtiFArkG47XK73xIQ/preview?sle=true

>> These are not small language issues for D.
>
> GC issues are library issues, not language issues.

It is a language issue if you want it to perform well.