Java isn't designed for efficient compile/link? Lies.
On Jul 25, 5:54 pm, RogerV <rog...@qwest.net> wrote: > Go language was motivated as an answer to Google's C++ problem. A lot > of their server software is written in C++. > > Go provides an intrinsic way to do concurrency and via goroutine > messaging, does not revolve around having to get locks right for multi- > threaded access to objects. > > Also, the goroutine concurrency is far more fine-grained than > threading. Threads are upper-bounded by what the underlying operating > system can effectively manage (usually topping out at a few thousand > at best). There are Go sample programs that spawn up to a 100,000 > goroutines in a single program and harvest values from them. > > However, a very significant paint point for all the C++ code base is > the build time overhead. Go language is designed to be very fast to > compile and link into executables. > > Java doesn't have an intrinsic actor model approach to concurrency. > Nor has Java been targeted for very efficient compile/link into > executable ala Go. > > Go also has a huge boilerplate reduction in code verbosity relative to > Java. It compiles down to native code and its feasible to directly > call a lot of POSIX APIs from Go without all the fuss and muss of > Java's JNI muck. Go didn't have a package for interacting with file > system events, but because how how easy it is to inter-operate with > Linux APIs, I was able to whip up a Go package on top of Linux inotify > subsystem in short order. > > I kind of see Go as a language that has appeal to people that like the > C language. It's not as low level to the degree that C is (no pointer > arithmetic) but it has an essence of C simplicity about it. Sort of a > C brought into the 21 st century. > > If you prefer the coolness factor of the functional languages, and C > didn't ever have much appeal to you, then you probably won't really > care for Go. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
