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by e12e
3740 days ago
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I've sometimes wondered a bit about this myself. But consider what you'd end up with if you wanted to keep most of go's benefits, but add on such bits. And consider that you could just use Ada, Nim or OCaml. Or maybe Rust (I really like Rust, I'm not sure how much overlap there is in any subjective list of "Go the good parts" and "Rust the good parts" though). I think some of the best parts of Go is the central model: "go get", "go fmt" along with the standard library - if you fork, the burden falls on the fork keep all that stuff working in a sensible way too. |
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- OCaml is great but parallelism is still limited by its "Global Interpreter Lock" (like Python or Ruby).
- Rust is great but ownership/borrowing is not for everyone and people sometimes prefer relying on a good garbage collector.
- Nim is great but it's a "small" project compared to Go and most people prefer relying on a large ecosystem like the one offered by Go.
- Ada was a major milestone in the history of programming languages, but it's considered by most as an "old" language, compared to Go/Rust/OCaml/Haskell/Scala/etc.