Go: A new system programing language

[hasenj]

dsimcha wrote:
> == Quote from Walter Bright (newshound1 at digitalmars.com)'s article
>> hasenj wrote:
>>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>>> Message passing for concurrency is a solid solution for many types of
>>>> concurrency problems, but it isn't a panacea.
>>> Do you think D would benefit if you add this (or similar) feature to it?
>> Sean is working on a message passing (CSP) package for D. I'm not
>> convinced it needs to be a core language feature, though.
> 
> This is true.  After I created ParallelFuture (the lib w/ parallel foreach, map,
> reduce), a friend mentioned that my model was pretty similar to the OpenMP model.
>  I read a little about OpenMP and it really hit home how powerful a language D is,
> given that I was able to implement something OpenMP-ish as a pure library, without
> any modifications to the compiler.  The fact that message passing is built into
> Go! makes me wonder if there's a reason why it can't be done well in a library.

Same could be said about dynamic arrays and hash 
tables/maps/dictionaries. They can be implemented as libraries (C/C++ 
approach).

The reason these data structures are built into languages like D and 
Python is probably the same reason that Go has channels and goroutines 
built-in.