Python & Go

[Michele Simionato]

On Nov 14, 4:38 am, Paul Rubin <http://phr...@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote:
> It seems a little weird to me that they (Google) are concerned with
> the speed of the compiler, indicating that they plan to write enormous
> programs in the language.  I've heard they use a 1000-node cluster to
> compile their large C++ apps.  Go seems too primitive (so far) to
> really be suitable for such large-scale development, and (for a newly
> designed language) seems to be missing a lot of the latest ideas.

It does not look so primitive to me, compared to commonly used
languages.
I am pretty sure that they are "missing a lot of the latest ideas" on
purpose. If they want to succeed and make Go a popular language in the
Google
infrastructure (ideally replacing C++) their selling point must be a
nearly zero
learning curve. Python succeded with the low learning curve idea. I
wish them
the best. Certainly it is time to replace C with something more
modern, be it Go
or some other language.