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

[Paulo Pinto]

On Tuesday, 8 December 2020 at 09:25:31 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grostad 
wrote:
> On Tuesday, 8 December 2020 at 08:50:15 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> I love how the presenter calls Plan 9 a diversion, after all 
>> Alef was dropped from Plan 9, only to be brought back in 
>> Inferno.
>
> It sounds like he has ties to the current owners of Inferno...
>
> The irony is that Inferno/Limbo looks like an attempt to 
> compete with Sun's Java, with vm/jit, but Go is actually able 
> to compete with Java because it doesn't use a jit...

Yes Inferno/Limbo was an attempt to compete with Java on the 
embedded space.

Any savvy Java developer knows that Java has AOT support, and JIT 
caches since around 2000, it is a matter to care to actually use 
them, and having the budget to buy those third party JDKs.

Go still needs to work out on its compiler optimization story to 
actually compete with Java servers in performance outside hipster 
circles.

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r19&hw=ph&test=composite