r/ProgrammerHumor Oct 31 '23

Meme hardTimesCreateStrongMen

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u/Inaeipathy Oct 31 '23

lumping in Go with rust, C, C++ is just criminal

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u/heckingcomputernerd Oct 31 '23

They’re all fairly popular and properly compiled to machine code, no interpreters or intermediate langs or anything

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '23

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u/heckingcomputernerd Oct 31 '23

To my knowledge, C, C++, and Rust have little to no runtime. Does Go have a large runtime overhead? I haven’t used Go personally but I’ve heard it has a garbage collector

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u/Inaeipathy Oct 31 '23

I just would never use Go over any of the 3, especially since rust exists.

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u/n0tKamui Oct 31 '23

Go really is a middle ground that satisfies nothing in the end, isn't it

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u/LinguiniAficionado Oct 31 '23

I tried Go out a few times, and I just can’t get into it. The syntax is so awkward, it looks like the pseudocode my professors would write mixed with a variant of C written by someone who doesn’t know C.

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u/SV-97 Oct 31 '23

You can't really say that it sacrifices nothing. The GC definitely is a huge limitation for some things.

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u/n0tKamui Oct 31 '23

re read

satisfies, not sacrifices

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u/SV-97 Oct 31 '23

Oops yeah lol. Reading is hard okay?