Re: [tlug] "Go Considered Harmful"

[Edward Middleton <edward.middleton@example.com>]

> > Go is certainly improving upon C, sure. But it is also a language for a
> > different purpose. The purpose of C is system implementation, Go is more
> > of a scripting language, certainly not a system implementation language.
>
> Well, it certainly doesn't look like that to me, and I suspect that most Go
> programmers would disagree with you as well. Go certainly feels a _lot_
> more like C than like Perl or Python, much less Bourne shell. In
> particular, Go very much focuses on data structures as binary data in
> memory, as opposed to "objects" (in the Lisp sense, not the OO sense).

It seems to fill the server side niche that would otherwise be taken by 
Java, Python or ruby.  A lot of people move from python or ruby to Go 
because they where sick of dealing with dependencies or performance issues.

Edward