Go 1.14 Released - Performance Improvements, Go's Module Support Production-Ready

[boxie]

Go loves pointers, leading to memory corruption and other atrocities, memory leak still exists too, so yeah, it eliminate some of them, but it's still a mess.

I would argue that "Go uses pointers and you can trip over them" - having seen the atrocities of pointer math, I am glad that Golang does not support it

[gquintard]

And, it has garbage collection, which relieves developer from having to think a lot about life of dynamically allocated data, and eliminates bugs caused by dangling pointers, and memory leaks.

Go loves pointers, leading to memory corruption and other atrocities, memory leak still exists too, so yeah, it eliminate some of them, but it's still a mess.

[quintesse]

It is compiled to native code, which produces tiny docker images (only compiled binary is needed). And, it has garbage collection, which relieves developer from having to think a lot about life of dynamically allocated data, and eliminates bugs caused by dangling pointers, and memory leaks. However, generics support is very missing

BTW Java has all this. Just look at https://quarkus.io/ if you want tiny binaries for use in containers.

Give this a Like if you LIKE golang (and explain why; how many statically-typed programming languages do you actually know).

Just, because it has got very sophisticated design, which encourages simple, decoupled and organized code. Java language allows to easily write heavily intercoupled spaghetti code. In golang, it becomes much more visible, giving feel something isn't quite right, if there's high coupling.

Apart from language design. It is compiled to native code, which produces tiny docker images (only compiled binary is needed). And, it has garbage collection, which relieves developer from having to think a lot about life of dynamically allocated data, and eliminates bugs caused by dangling pointers, and memory leaks.

However, generics support is very missing, as lots of abstract and reusable code, and especially some repeated mechanisma algorithms, do require generics.

[pkese]

Give this a Like if you LIKE golang (and explain why; how many statically-typed programming languages do you actually know).

[pkese]

Give this a Like if you DISLIKE golang

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Go 1.14 Released - Performance Improvements, Go's Module Support Production-Ready

Go 1.14 is now available as the latest version of this popular programming language backed by Google...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Golang-1.14-Release