[absker]

How is Go not general purpose?

[hellofunk]

Try to build a mobile app with Go.

[ikurei]

How are you then defining general-purpose?

I'd say a language is general-purpose when it has not been tailored to a specific scenario or area of problems, but to work well for most. Isn't that, to a great extent, true for go?

[anandroiddev]

You can build a mobile app in Go, for both Android and iOS.

https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/mobile

[hellofunk]

I didn't say you can't do it. I said, try to do it. The phrase "general purpose" must be stretched considerably in such a case.

[anandroiddev]

Is there a language you _do_ consider "general purpose"?

[hellofunk]

Yes. More than one, actually.