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On Jun 26, 2018, at 3:33 PM, Andy Kosela <akosela@andykosela.com> wrote:
> =20
> David Chisnall is known for pushing Go as a next generation C.  He =
even wrote a book about it.  I think he has a point in saying that Go =
was created as direct remedy to many things in C.  Most of it features =
come from decades of experience working with C, and seeing ways in which =
it can be improved.

I primarily write code in Go these days and like it a lot (as
a "better" C) but I am not sure it will have C's longevity.
It still uses a flat shared memory model. This is harder and
harder for hardware to emulate efficiently (and comes with
more complexity) at smaller and smaller minimum feature sizes
and higher & higher CPU clock rates & on-chip comm speeds. We
need something other than a better C to squeeze maximum
performance out of a CPU built out of 100s to 1000s of cores.=