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BitC was started when Shapiro was at a research university. No research institution would fund Go, because Go is not a research language. BitC was, however, des
by ootachi 14y ago
BitC was started when Shapiro was at a research university. No research institution would fund Go, because Go is not a research language. BitC was, however, designed as a research language.
- Drbble 14y agoGo could certainly be funded by a research institution. Plenty of university researchers work on Java ideas, for example.
- ootachi 14y agoFor that to be true, the Go developers would have to be open to adding research ideas to the language. Java is (for example, generics). Right now Go's developers are not open to this. As a result, Go is not publishable.