Elysian Shadows

Anyone try google's Go yet???? and if so did you like it??? i'm just curious cause i just was reading up on some computer articles and they praised it

Maybe if I knew what you were talking about, I would respond with my opinions on it.
Mind showing a link or something? I've never seen anything on what you're talking about.

http://golang.org/

Go is Google's programming language. I know little to nothing about it.

EDIT:

http://golang.org/doc/go_lang_faq.html

A really great FAQ about the language. The documentation seems really great.

I have tried to write a few very simple programs in it, but not enough to judge it.

I do however think alot of the features and concepts behind it sound very cool.

This is just another of those little side languages made by the big corporate jocks. I'd just stick with C++ or C or something. I dunno. *sigh* We're all better off with just one universal language in my opinion. Instead of questioning it's usefulness why not just try it out yourself and see if you like it? Everyone has his/her own views on everything. Some like it and others don't.

Marx Chaotix wrote:This is just another of those little side languages made by the big corporate jocks. I'd just stick with C++ or C or something. I dunno. *sigh* We're all better off with just one universal language in my opinion. Instead of questioning it's usefulness why not just try it out yourself and see if you like it? Everyone has his/her own views on everything. Some like it and others don't.

This might be a stupid question, but is there a popular compiled language with modern features like garbage collection out there? Maybe Go can fill this role, if such a language even is needed...?

And i still think that for example the way Go handles interfaces is really cool.

Why are there braces but no semicolons? And why can't I put the opening brace on the next line?

Fuck that shit, I hate being constricted with my programming style... I mean I understand that Python does that stuff among other languages, but I'll make an exception because I wont be writing large applications with Python (no offense).

But if they want me to write huge applications with it, I need to be able to be free with my way of structure.
But, hey, that's just me.

It looks interesting, however, I don't think I'll ever use it.
I don't like how you declare variables among other things, I took a look at it for a few seconds and was turned off pretty much right away.
The compile time speed is great, but that isn't enough to get me.

LeonBlade wrote:

Why are there braces but no semicolons? And why can't I put the opening brace on the next line?

Fuck that shit, I hate being constricted with my programming style... I mean I understand that Python does that stuff among other languages, but I'll make an exception because I wont be writing large applications with Python (no offense).

But if they want me to write huge applications with it, I need to be able to be free with my way of structure.
But, hey, that's just me.

It looks interesting, however, I don't think I'll ever use it.
I don't like how you declare variables among other things, I took a look at it for a few seconds and was turned off pretty much right away.
The compile time speed is great, but that isn't enough to get me.

Hmm.. all the things you just listed as bad, sounds like some pretty nice features to me...

ismetteren wrote:

LeonBlade wrote:

Why are there braces but no semicolons? And why can't I put the opening brace on the next line?

Fuck that shit, I hate being constricted with my programming style... I mean I understand that Python does that stuff among other languages, but I'll make an exception because I wont be writing large applications with Python (no offense).

But if they want me to write huge applications with it, I need to be able to be free with my way of structure.
But, hey, that's just me.

It looks interesting, however, I don't think I'll ever use it.
I don't like how you declare variables among other things, I took a look at it for a few seconds and was turned off pretty much right away.
The compile time speed is great, but that isn't enough to get me.

Hmm.. all the things you just listed as bad, sounds like some pretty nice features to me...

Hahaha
Being constricted isn't a good thing to me... >.>

I've jingled in it a bit, i found it neat, has alot of really cool standard libs, its compilation time is next to none, its faster the shit smeared lightning.
it be pretty sweet if you could easily use it as a scripting language on top of C/++, also its concurrency is great, you can leverage multi core machines without doing it explicitly.

It wont replace C for me, i used to use REXX as my quick and dirty lang, but Go has replaced that, I do hate the restrictions on how syntax can be written, but thats a small thing i'll live with.

Personally, I think that they are just trying to be different in the way that they do things rather than having an easier way of doing thing.

It looks awesome. I'm not going to just go out and start using it like I did with D (I learned my lesson ), but once I get something significant done, I'll definitely try it out. I think I could pretty easily adapt to its style and, once I do, make some pretty cool stuff with it (I especially like the built-in concurrency).

I might check this out, I've been wanting a nice down-and-dirty side langauge :D good topic

I find it very interesting that Go is statically compiled. I would have figured Google would have jumped on the JIT runtime bandwagon. Very interesting indeed. It does sound to be a lot like what D was supposed to be.

I was watching the google tech talk on it, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKnDgT73v8s , and I think I'm going to try it out sometime.

I advise anyone interested to watch that. As Ginto said, its the thing that made him decide to try it