/prog/s opinion on Go

You know, the google thing.  Personally I'm a bit excited for a compiled python-like C language.  It's going to take for fucking ever for it to become useful, though, especially with google's slow and steady attitude.  I could see it catching on though kind of like python did.

>>39
That's an interesting wiki, thanks FV.

>>40
indexing an array is the same speed and memory overhead as stepping using pointer arithmetic
I can't seem to grasp the difference between them. Aren't the two the same thing?

>>24
all metaprogramming and pointer manipulation thrown out the window
What kinds of things can you achieve with pointer arithmetic that you couldn't do otherwise? I haven't really written a lot of C and I think the only use aside from dynamic arrays was when I had some semi-inheritance going on.