From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1fc0d9800911112031n24c47aa6i8722e1c67f110a74@mail.gmail.com> References: <1fc0d9800911112031n24c47aa6i8722e1c67f110a74@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:27:13 -0800 Message-ID: From: Roman Shaposhnik To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: [9fans] Go Topicbox-Message-UUID: 99c0e636-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Nick LaForge wrote: > On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 7:20 AM, Roman V Shaposhnik wrote: > >> Personally I think you'd be better off exploring a connection that a >> language called Lua has to C. In the immortal words of Casablanca it >> just could be "the begging of a beautiful friendship". > > Well, it was nice while it lasted. Huh? I'll agree with you when Go grows a VM. And even then things like ... and multi-values (which, of course, are only possible in a dynamically typed language) will keep me interested. Speaking of VMs (and Limbo) -- I'm wondering if Go is eventually going to have it anyway. Any reason not to? Thanks, Roman.