[OT] Ada gems

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On Wednesday, 15 October 2014 at 17:10:52 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> I saw that roadmap. It is also the confirmation that they won't 
> ever add generics.
>
> So I guess, a better C it is.

It isn't all that great at the C-stuff, Go is no system level 
language IMO.

But templates can always be added later. If Google manage to get 
a solid GC based runtime up, one might write a new front end for 
it. Just like people write new languages for JVM. (but it is 
still a big "if")

> They just got a victory today, as Microsoft is now bringing 
> Docker to Windows, which uses Go quite heavily.

Docker is a nice idea. Not sure where Microsoft is going with it, 
but they probably go for this to  make Azure competitive.