There seem to be a lot of developers who genuinely believe that
Go increases their productivity, for what it's worth. This thread
is quite interesting:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-nuts/29RsB_nfTYA;
a developer there finds the productivity benefits from using Go
sufficient to justify going through the process of converting
objdump'd c assembly into opcodes written in Plan 9 assembly
syntax just to use AVX2 instructions (which the Plan 9 assembler
used by Go doesn't support). Not to mention that they're also
directly writing assembly themselves, due to the Go compiler's
lack of intrinsics.
On Tuesday, 12 November 2013 at 12:24:23 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
On Tuesday, 12 November 2013 at 11:39:23 UTC, Luís Marques
wrote:
Also, in the spirit of non-technical discussion, pro-D stuff,
see slide 26:
http://www.slideshare.net/jpetazzo/docker-and-go-why-did-we-decide-to-write-docker-in-go
Yes, Go has a big PR rolling machine on the web.
Given its spartan set of features and religious decisions, I
doubt anyone would care, if it wasn't being developed at Google.
On the other hand, more people using strong typed languages
with GC support as C and C++ replacement, is always positive.
Hopefully D will also have a piece of the pie.
--
Paulo
