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by booleandilemma 893 days ago
Why is Go often lumped in with languages that don't have garbage collectors? I'm always confused by this. Is Go suitable for systems programming? I myself use Go, but for web development.
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It’s advertised as a systems programming language, though the system definition it uses casts a much wider net (think kubernetes) than some people’s understanding of system programming (think bare metal bit banging).
I don't know. I lumped it in because but when I use Nim or Rust for something my coworkers ask "why not go?"