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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?
Yeah, total slashvertisement. It reads just like those "Acai Berry EXPOSED" ads that are just so awesome.
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Google makes very good products, but they don't take privacy seriously at all. Even if they did, I'm not going to use any more products by Google (and I'm soon transfering out of Gmail). The reason is that Google is just growing to be too big, it's not even funny anymore. Soon they know everything and have huge corporate power. And it's a corporation after all. Their main goal is profit, not acting morally.
10.times do p "Ruby is it\n" end
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That's inevitable. It's certainly better than write everywhere, test everywhere.
No, it wasn't.
Java's platform abstraction meant that, instead of applying the rules that the vendor provided you with for adapting code to their platform (as every OS vendor did for, for example, C code), you had to port to an unknown platform which wasn't local and wasn't quite generic either. In the end, this lead to a schism that prevented Java from ever getting a foothold in any of the areas in which interoperability with existing infrastructure was key (systems administration, QA, scalable infrastructure, high performance tools, 3D applications, Desktop/office tools, etc.) All of these systems are still written in C or C++ to this day.
Java was only useful in captive environments like financial industry apps, early content delivery apps for the Web (though that has really eroded since Java's heyday) and embedded environments where there is no existing system (e.g. phones, DVD players).