Go: A new system programing language

[Daniel de Kok]

On 2009-11-14 16:19:00 +0100, Andrei Alexandrescu 
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> said:
> grauzone wrote:
>> Daniel de Kok wrote:
>>> But hey, there is a compiler for 64-bit binaries :). Of course, I 
>>> should swallow that, and help with the LDC efforts...
>> 
>> As far as I know, ldc+Tango already works on 64 bit. Also, Go has no 
>> Windows compiler, which is an _absolute_ show stopper.
> 
> Yeah, but that's something that can be fixed. What is more difficult to 
> fix is that Go is all-over an unremarkable and unoriginal language 
> (something that would become obvious if one thinks for a second what 
> would have happened if Go wasn't associated with Google's brand name). 
> On the other hand, it is associated with Google's brand name. :o) It 
> will be interesting to see how things turn out.

Unremarkable, but to be fair it will appeal to a large number of people 
who want a more modern C without the complexity of C++ (or D). It 
resembles the approach of Objective-C quite much, but I think Google is 
better able to push it beyond their own products. That is if Google is 
actually interested in Go, other than it being a 20% project.

-- Daniel