On Thursday, April 5, 2018 at 6:32:46 PM UTC-4, matthe...@gmail.com wrote: > > I think if it is not popular until 2020, it will never be popular. > > > I’m not sure popularity is a shared goal in the community; the original > goal is to solve problems at Google. >
> Matt > But it solves the common problem in the IT industry. Before Go, there are only two popular choices to do backend progrmaming, Java (as a compiled langauge) and several dynamic languages. Now Go presents as an alternative to Java, with many advantages to Java. > > On Thursday, April 5, 2018 at 12:26:19 PM UTC-5, 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. >> >> 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.
