/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.

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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?
Where the above assertion is true, yes, they're the same thing. But indexing a safe array is not as fast as arithmetic, and the difference is bounds-checking.