this is a good read about go's new garbage collector and also actually-existing garbage collection in general https://medium.com/@octskyward/modern-garbage-collection-911ef4f8bd8e …
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it's dated, and data-free. 1.8 is in beta, current GC has pause-time goal of 100 usec, usually attained.
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100 usec is still about 1000x too long.
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In financial trading land, maybe, and the fact that their fuse is that short is not happy-making.
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Or anything realtime. Signal processing, control systems, ...
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don't think that's our target audience. Doesn't cure cancer, either.
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Okay. I've just seen claims that Go can serve as a "C replacement".
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You said that in a very weaselly way. Can you point to an example of such a claim?
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I was thinking personal conversations but it seems to have been discussed in public too: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/3s6mxr/which_language_has_the_brightest_future_in/ …
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Those people are idiots.
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Fair enough. Sorry for jumping in this on Twitter, a bad medium for it.
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