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Seems to me there was once a political group called Technocrats, who envisioned a Utopian society that would rally around a universal language... But what happens when you give power to technocrats? They each plump for what he or she thinks is the perfect language! It is to laugh!

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Nov 14th, 2009

After reading the FAQ, the two features which I found interesting were:
- No type hierarchy; this is a life safer given that the ridiculous amount of time OO programmers spend juggling with type hierarchies.
- Goroutines instead of threads; spawning a new thread only when it's absolutely required is cool IMO.

That being said, the syntax looks a bit ugly and convoluted.

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Nov 14th, 2009

It's important to note that this language doesn't seem to be designed for a Python programmer craving more speed. Rather it seems geared at C++ programmers who feel they could benefit from some specific features which can be found in languages like Python, hence the phrase "a cross between C++ and Python" can be a bit misleading.

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Bugga - The Google Go language isn't in the Ubuntu synaptic package manager so tons of commands need to be done to install the Go compiler. And I can tell you now very few people would want to do that so this language will never be popular at this rate with a command line interface to install and an endless installation process depending on the OS. I might just stick with Java.

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Originally Posted by cwarn23

Bugga - The Google Go language isn't in the Ubuntu synaptic package manager so tons of commands need to be done to install the Go compiler. And I can tell you now very few people would want to do that so this language will never be popular at this rate with a command line interface to install and an endless installation process depending on the OS. I might just stick with Java.

Honestly you deserve to be stuck with Java.

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I watched an hour tech video on the Google "Go" programming language and not having any experience with Python, I could only relate to the similarities between C and C++ which there are quite a few. However, I thought some of the syntax in the language should be addressed as it might be more complicated than it needs to be for new programmers.

My experience in programming has been with C++, Visual Basic, C#, and Java. I enjoyed working in Java, but did not have the same kind of enthusiasm in VB and C#. I would like to see more work done in the syntax of both languages.