On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 16:16, Levi Pearson <[email protected]> wrote: > Richard Esplin <[email protected]> writes: > >> Has anyone here played with Go yet? >> >> I have been hankering for the easy development practices of a >> scripting language like Python or Ruby in a language that compiles to >> fast binary code. >> > > I haven't played with Go, but I've read a bit about it. I don't think > it really has much in common with Python or Ruby at all; it's much more > like C, but with a lot of warts removed and some powerful new features > attached. Oddly, one of its primary features is that the *compiler* for > it is really fast, which I guess can be a big issue when you've got a > gigantic C++ codebase. If it catches on, it'll also be easy to make > fancy IDEs for it. >
Since ken thompson is working on this it doesn't surprise me that it takes after c. Cheers, Stephen /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
