On Nov 14, 4:38 am, Paul Rubin <http://phr...@nospam.invalid> wrote: > It seems a little weird to me that they (Google) are concerned with > the speed of the compiler, indicating that they plan to write enormous > programs in the language. I've heard they use a 1000-node cluster to > compile their large C++ apps. Go seems too primitive (so far) to > really be suitable for such large-scale development, and (for a newly > designed language) seems to be missing a lot of the latest ideas.
It does not look so primitive to me, compared to commonly used languages. I am pretty sure that they are "missing a lot of the latest ideas" on purpose. If they want to succeed and make Go a popular language in the Google infrastructure (ideally replacing C++) their selling point must be a nearly zero learning curve. Python succeded with the low learning curve idea. I wish them the best. Certainly it is time to replace C with something more modern, be it Go or some other language. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
