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Google Go Capturing Developer Interest
angry tapir writes with news that Google Go seems to be cutting a wide swath through the programming community in just a short time since its early, experimental release. While Google insists that Go is still a work in progress (like so many of their offerings), many developers are so intrigued by the feature set that they are already implementing many noncritical applications with it. What experiences, good or bad, have you had with Google Go, and how likely is it to really take over?
Like Java?
The what now?
Java. It's quite a big player in IT job market.
This is where the serious fun begins.
"C++ is too hard, I'll use java. java is too hard, I'll use C#. C# is too hard, I'll use python. Python is too hard (boner?), I'll use ruby. ruby is too hard, I'll use Go." -- GoFanBoy (formerly RubyFanBoy, formerly PythonFanBoy, formerly ...)
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
Maybe they should just call it "Goo". Then they can call the subsequent version "Gooo", and so on.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful
If Pandora's box is destined to be opened, *I* want to be the one to open it.
FORTRAN. Pros: Faster. Cons: Everything else.
"Mr. Burns, your campaign has the momentum of a runaway freight train. What makes you so popular?"
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Except that in order for a non-registered trademark to be valid, it must be well known.
Sorry, but "hey, I created a language - it was used by both me *and* my ex-girlfriend's dog five years ago" doesn't cut it.
It's because there is no need for a new systems language. Everyone knows that COBOL does everything you need it to and will last forever.
I'll let you know if/when my program halts...
Go? That's the language that Toyota uses to write their firmware, right?
Read my blog.
I don't think COBOL was a systems language. It was for business logic.
No, it wasn't a systems language.
THATS how amazing COBOL is.
I was one of those developers chafing at the bid to get my hands on Go. Once I started I never looked backed. I was able to write my own version of HelloWorld in half (that is 1/2) the time it took me to do it in C and it was bug Free with no memory leaks. I think that pretty says it all. If you're looking for a programming language that solves all your coding problems look no further. Now that I have abandoned Java my manually linking programs with xml skills have declined sharply. Similarly after abandoning Lisp my ability to match parenthesis's has almost vanished. No matter, with Go I perceive the universe in my belly button.
What's with the line numbers? I thought we buried those in the same unmarked grave as disco and rotary dial phones.
Those line numbers, they're
Ah ah ah ah stayin' alive stayin' alive
(apologies to the Brothers Gibb)
you don't think Go will go well? :)
I read the spec, I noticed that Ken Thompson is one of the designers and this:
This approach makes for clean-looking, semicolon-free code. The one surprise is that it's important to put the opening brace of a construct such as an if statement on the same line as the if; if you don't, there are situations that may not compile or may give the wrong result. The language forces the brace style to some extent.
- if this is not done on purpose, I'll eat my hat (which by coincidence is currently made of some eatable stuff I think).
I know why there is this new language now, forget about everything else, Ken just wanted to make a point of the correct style of opening braces and he came up with a language that does not allow you to do any different!
You can't handle the truth.
Were they riding unicorns?
Whatever happened to the previous language named Go? Did the creator settle with Google, or did Google just ignore him?
The previous version was renamed into in "Go, Next Edition". It's GoNE.
Oh, and please try the fish.
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Do NOT pass GO, do NOT collect $200!