On Thursday, 19 December 2013 at 11:31:10 UTC, Russel Winder
wrote:
On Thu, 2013-12-19 at 12:23 +0100, bearophile wrote:
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Moving their Go compiler from C to Go seems a good idea, for
the reasons they have listed. But moving all their other tools
from C to Go seems a little too much.
I think not. The whole point of Go is to replace C, so it is
right to
replace all use of C with Go for the Go toolchain.
Fully agree. Only when the public at large starts to see GC
enabled languages used in contexts where C is known for, are they
convinced that C can be replaced.
What I advocate since I got in touch with Oberon.
Having the full toolchain done in Go already takes out of the
equation the typical "my compiler compiles yours" statement.
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Paulo
