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Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 11:18:45 +0100
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Llu=EDs?= Batlle i Rossell <viric@viric.name>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 09:54:34AM +0000, Balwinder S Dheeman wrote:
> On 11/20/2012 03:42 PM, Steve Simon wrote:
> >>How do you studiously not do something? Doesn't the imply working
> >>hard at something?
> >
> >Indeed, everything I did read about Go made it look very attractive so I am ignoring it
> >as I know myself. If I read more I will start to get annoyed that I am wasting my time learning C++
> >when Go is a much better solution. Its the sam reason I use plan9 and not Windows/Linux/OSX etc.
> >
> >its a backhanded compliment to the Go authors that I must not look at their work (yet).
>
> Me, OTOH, would like see Go go out of fashion ASAP; What's so
> special a C/C++ programmer can't do what she/he can do with Go?

I find big wins in go, but I hope it will be still improved.

The lack of header files is very nice, to mention only one big annoyance I see
in C/C++. :)

C/C++ don't have so fast (and ready) 'goroutines'. I hate writing state
machines; let the per-goroutine-stack hold every state!