On Wednesday, 15 October 2014 at 17:10:52 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
I saw that roadmap. It is also the confirmation that they won't
ever add generics.
So I guess, a better C it is.
It isn't all that great at the C-stuff, Go is no system level
language IMO.
But templates can always be added later. If Google manage to get
a solid GC based runtime up, one might write a new front end for
it. Just like people write new languages for JVM. (but it is
still a big "if")
They just got a victory today, as Microsoft is now bringing
Docker to Windows, which uses Go quite heavily.
Docker is a nice idea. Not sure where Microsoft is going with it,
but they probably go for this to make Azure competitive.
