On Wednesday, 5 September 2018 01:57:33 UTC+2, Pablo Rozas Larraondo wrote: > > If I understand it correctly we could say then that Go's runtime has > things in common with a VM's runtime (I'm thinking mostly in Java's) such > as GC, goroutine (thread) scheduling, etc. However, Go's runtime cannot be > considered a VM because it does not compile code to an intermediate > language, it executes compiled native code instead. >
But then one could argue that Go's runtime has things in common with the operating system such as memory management and goroutine/thread scheduling, etc. I probably would explain what the runtime does and why it does these things. Then explain that these things are important and that lots of other things provide the same services, e.g. the kernel or a virtual machine because these are common hard problems. Lions and and jellyfish both hunt because they need food but explaining lions in terms of jellyfish (or the other way around) is probably not helpful (especially as most students do not have deep understanding of a lion's or Java VM's internals.) V. -- 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.
