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Fact: C is faster than Go: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=go&lang2=gcc http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?t

Fact: C is faster than Go: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=go&lang2=gcc http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all... Fact: Python is more expressive than Go (less code): http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=go&lang2=python3 http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all... If I wasn't interested in Go I wouldn't complain about not having binaries. You may not be running RHEL 5.0 but there are many organizations which still have many systems on it. It's not always up to Joe Developer to decide to upgrade the OS on every box in an organization. Perhaps I need to know more about building go to compile my own binaries, but not having to deal with C is one of the reason's I was looking at Go in the first place. How is this FUD? C is faster than Go, Python takes less code than Go and the binaries don't support RHEL 5.0. I thought my post wasn't particularly biased, but I'm pretty shocked at the reaction I got :(

hell0_th3r3 14y ago
you seem to be presenting a false dichotomy. can't go be a success in some place in between c and python? my haskell is faster than python and more expressive. therefore you should stop using python immediately, right? of course not, because anyone using the shooutout to make sweeping generalizations has of course read the massive disclaimer warning against that...
- rabbitfang 14y ago
  Go does fall somewhere between the two, which is what I was getting at. Whether that's a good or a bad thing was what I hadn't made my mind up about. I like the idea of something that's expressive and fast, my thoughts are currently that it could to be more expressive.
kev009 14y ago
There is compound failure at your organization as running _5.0_ is reckless and dangerous.
- rabbitfang 14y ago
  You do realise that security patches are still being provided for even RHEL 3? https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rhel3els-errata.html https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rhel3els-errata.html

hell0_th3r3 14y ago

you seem to be presenting a false dichotomy. can't go be a success in some place in between c and python? my haskell is faster than python and more expressive. therefore you should stop using python immediately, right? of course not, because anyone using the shooutout to make sweeping generalizations has of course read the massive disclaimer warning against that...

rabbitfang 14y ago
Go does fall somewhere between the two, which is what I was getting at. Whether that's a good or a bad thing was what I hadn't made my mind up about. I like the idea of something that's expressive and fast, my thoughts are currently that it could to be more expressive.

kev009 14y ago

There is compound failure at your organization as running _5.0_ is reckless and dangerous.

rabbitfang 14y ago
You do realise that security patches are still being provided for even RHEL 3? https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rhel3els-errata.html https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rhel3els-errata.html