golang

After I wrote my post on Python and asyncio, I had the opportunity to work with the Go language for some other projects, and I started jotting down my opinions on it as I did so. After using it for a bit, I decided that it's mostly C with concurrency, seamless M:N threading, garbage collection, fast compilation, namespaces, multiple return values, packages, a mostly sane build system, no C preprocessor, minimal object-oriented support, interfaces, anonymous functions, and closures.…more