On 2009-11-14 16:19:00 +0100, Andrei Alexandrescu
<[email protected]> said:
grauzone wrote:
Daniel de Kok wrote:
But hey, there is a compiler for 64-bit binaries :). Of course, I
should swallow that, and help with the LDC efforts...
As far as I know, ldc+Tango already works on 64 bit. Also, Go has no
Windows compiler, which is an _absolute_ show stopper.
Yeah, but that's something that can be fixed. What is more difficult to
fix is that Go is all-over an unremarkable and unoriginal language
(something that would become obvious if one thinks for a second what
would have happened if Go wasn't associated with Google's brand name).
On the other hand, it is associated with Google's brand name. :o) It
will be interesting to see how things turn out.
Unremarkable, but to be fair it will appeal to a large number of people
who want a more modern C without the complexity of C++ (or D). It
resembles the approach of Objective-C quite much, but I think Google is
better able to push it beyond their own products. That is if Google is
actually interested in Go, other than it being a 20% project.
-- Daniel
