On Mon, May 02, 2016 at 11:12:08AM +1000, Timothy Rice wrote:
C is definitely not suckless either, especially when it comes
to UB, but it's probably the language with least suck and
highest simplicity while giving the most power to the developer.
Not too long ago I expressed support for C as a way to obtain very fast
programs; the context is I work around people who are interested in stat
mech, MCMC, simulations of complex systems, etc.
A more experienced developer replied that in fact Go has comparable speed
to C but does not lead to the same memory management challenges, thus
should usually be preferred. It appears that most interest in C these days
is from people who need to work with Arduinos.
So, while we're on the (off-)topic of comparing the suckiness of various
languages, what do people here think about Go?
I just think that Go is a version that is just similar to Rust but with
the "safety" went to execution-time instead of compilation-time.
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