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by breadwinner 466 days ago
So when can we expect Go support in Visual Studio? I am sold by Anders' explanation that Go is the lowest language you can use that has garbage collection!
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It is already there, kind of, the original Visual Studio Code plugin was actually done by Microsoft, and at a later point given to Google for further development.

"VS Code Go Language Extension Goes from Microsoft to Google"

https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2020/06/10/go-goes...

You can also have GC in C++ and generate even faster code.