My choice to pick Go over D ( and Rust ), mostly non-technical

Ola Fosheim Grostad ola.fosheim.grostad at gmail.com
Sun Dec 6 19:50:51 UTC 2020


On Sunday, 6 December 2020 at 19:37:31 UTC, random wrote:
> On Saturday, 5 December 2020 at 21:38:40 UTC, Daniel N wrote:
>>
>> But what I don't get is, why would anyone choose Go over C# 
>> for instance, it also has an excellent ecosystem but the 
>> language is actually decent unlike Go.
>
> Learn to implement basic data structures like in C? (no 
> generics 2020 wtf!)
>
> To use a weird way of duck typing in a typed language? 
> (interfaces and upcoming generics)
>
> I don't get it too. The language is hilariously bad imho^^.

This comparison is from 2018, so it might not hold true today, 
but as you see the virtues of Go is the low latency incremental 
garbage collector and runtime:

https://medium.com/servicetitan-engineering/go-vs-c-part-2-garbage-collection-9384677f86f1

It would be interesting to compare with D.


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