On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 11:35 PM, Nick LaForge <nicklaforge@gmail.com> wrote:

> I hope it won't seem rude to suggest it, but the go-nuts list is the
> optimum place for your specific concerns.  The Go authors read it and
> are very conscientious in responding to serious questions.
>
> The Go authors did express confidence that GC performance could
> eventually be made competitive, although I couldn't tell you whether
> that has yet happened.  I would nevertheless keep in mind that they
> are experienced professionals (c.f. Inferno) and that you'd be wrong
> to malign GC categorically based on your experiences with the
> proliferation of various toy languages on the net.  (I won't mention
> names.)
>
> If you want a modern C++ or some other heavyweight language on Plan 9,
> I'll point out that there was some talk in August about a LLVM port,
> though you'll be hard pressed to find many here that desire it above
> Go.
>

Well if I were funded and had an infinite amount of time I'd think LLVM for
Plan 9 would be excellent, as well as Go on LLVM :-).


>
> Nick
>
> On 2/2/11, Jacob Todd <jaketodd422@gmail.com> wrote:
> > And russ cox, and everyone else in the CONTRIBUTORS file.
> > On Feb 2, 2011 12:39 AM, "Scott Sullivan" <scott@ss.org> wrote:
> >
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