Go: A new system programing language

hasenj hasan.aljudy at gmail.com
Wed Nov 11 15:47:12 PST 2009


Walter Bright wrote:
> hasenj wrote:
>> I think the "go" language creators would consider a language with all 
>> these features to be bloated.
> 
> Probably true. The trouble with a too-simple language, however, is it 
> makes the user code overly complex. Consider the Java IDE that generates 
> hundreds of lines of boilerplate with a single click. The IDE is 
> essentially providing the high level features that the language lacks.
> 
> Finding the sweet spot between simplistic and bloat is not at all easy.
> 
> 
>> What's interesting to me is the approach they take to concurrency: 
>> completely different from D's approach. What's more interesting is 
>> that their approach comes from their practical experience implementing 
>> web servers.
> 
> 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?



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