/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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Google's sufficiently smart GC is vaporware until it isn't.

Anyway, Go is currently intended to be a language for Google's *internal use*, so they're not really concerned about it catching on elsewhere at this stage; at least, that's what I got from the original announcement. I don't think what Go is doing is very impressive, though. OCaml is faster and terser than Go and it exists *today*; SBCL and LuaJIT2 also beat Go while having dynamic typing. Hell, even thin layers on top of C, like OOC and Vala, are beating Go in terseness and speed at this point, and, I'll wager right now, they'll continue being better for at least the next two years.

http://live.gnome.org/Vala
http://ooc-lang.org/

So I don't find Go to be particularly special.