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by masklinn 4698 days ago
> My only gripe is its intended use as a systems programming language.

It's not. It's a new Java, not a new C++.

> ie: hard to bind other languages to it through an FFI.

More or less impossible: GC and goroutines are not optional so you'd need to cleanly setup and shutdown the Go runtime. You'd have to embed Go as you do Lua or Python.
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slashclee 4698 days ago
> > My only gripe is its intended use as a systems programming language.

> It's not. It's a new Java, not a new C++.

Not according to the Go developers. "Go is a general-purpose language designed with systems programming in mind." http://golang.org/ref/spec#Introduction

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masklinn 4698 days ago
It's not the first time they could be quoted with completely off-their-rocker statements.
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