On Tuesday, 7 June 2016 at 09:29:35 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
Their "strap line" is effectively that GC is not a problem for systems programming. And they are right. Which is why D has no problem with being a GC language.
Incorrect. Pike, on a panel with D's Andrei, even said that when they labeled Go a systems programming language it was kind of taken in a way they didn't mean. It's more of a server programming language. I don't think Pike would agree that Go would be the best choice for an OS. I'm sure you can create one, and I'm sure he'd agree with this, but I doubt he'd personally reach for it.
Go has blossomed due to the Web niche but it is used elsewhere.
No. It's blossomed because of its tooling and standard library, which gets traction from the funds of Google.
