Go does not run in a VM like JVM and CLR languages do, but Go provides a "language as a platform"-like feel by allowing for code that is by and large platform-independent. It is true that executables have to be built for each platform but that has benefits of its own. Java applications require the JVM to be installed, while Go executables work immediately on the platform without dependencies.
Additionally, I don't really see why having a VM (which I assume is what you mean by a platform) makes for better language in the cloud space. For the most part, machines running in the cloud use Linux. If you build your executable for Linux, you're done. No extra environment configuration required like one would have to do to run a VM language. Building the executable is often easy because of Go's great cross-compilation support. This ease of deployment is something people talk up Go for quite a bit. If you try Go out, I suspect you won't miss the JVM or the CLR. On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 1:47 PM T L <tapir....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Thursday, April 5, 2018 at 1:26:19 PM UTC-4, bingj...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> Almost 10 years golang appears in the world. 10 years is not a short >> duration. I think if it is not popular until 2020, it will never be popular. >> >> Golang is designed for cloud and internet areas. Really? >> >> The creators of golang have a lot of experience in C and C++. And golang >> borrows features from C and C++. But C and C++ do not fit the requirements >> of cloud and internet areas. >> >> Let's look at two popular programming languages java and php. What is the >> most important features of these two languages? Simple, ugly but >> practical... I find one feather: they are both not just programming >> languages but also platforms. They are almost the same in Windows and >> Linux. That's why java and php are very popular in recent days. >> >> C and C++ are just pure programming languages, not platforms. On Unix and >> Windows, C and C++ are very different. A developer of windows C++ is not a >> developer of UNIX C++, and a Linux C developer is not a Windows C developer. >> >> If golang wants to be widely used by developer all over the world before >> 2020, it must learn some thing from java and php, must be a >> programming-language-is-a-platform. >> >> Until now, programs written in golang still does not have binary >> distribution format like jar, dll or so. People have to share libraries by >> source code. It is so foolish. >> > > https://golang.org/cmd/go/#hdr-Build_modes > > >> Yes, Golang is very like C and C++, which are only pure programming >> language, But this times, we need "language as/is platform" technologies, >> just like php and java. >> >> I have watched golang for many years, but never turn to it. Why? I think >> it is still semi-finished product. Creators of golang are researchers, not >> engineers, they worked too slow. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
