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Rob Pike: Concurrency is not parallelism blog.golang.org/2013/01/concur

@bjzaba_ I find this go article suspicious.

Still working on a game! Just interested from a CS perspective. I'm currently working with

@bjzaba_ Cool! :D I didn't know game dev was a plausible use case for Rust. How are you finding it so far?

The tricky thing will be dealing with the lack of global state. But I'm sure that's a problem that can be solved.

@bjzaba_ What about Go? I don't know if there are any graphics libs, but I've been using it for a while now and I love it :)

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I see go as a higher level language, more like python (but with less overhead). Which definitely has its place.

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@bjzaba_ ...But not for games :P Interesting. I'd say it's as low level as C++.

Mandatory GC is a show-stopper in terms of high performance real-time applications.

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