> > There are few languages other than these that offer reasonable > performance, not worse than 2X slower than C, but they tend to be > memory hogs. Java is one of them. I cannot imagine every seeing a top > chess program written in Java, or anything that is really memory > intensive as good GO program tend to be. Is any of the 2200+ GO > programs on CGOS written in anything other than C?
To be fair, I did write an early version of Ergo in OCaml, and it was equally fast and arguably quite a bit cleaner. I returned to C++ because an OCaml library would be useful to probably no one but myself. So if you want to release something to the public, I agree that C/C++ is the way to go. Other than that, I don't think that computer go development has been extensive enough to argue that it's spanned all possible approaches.
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