The error handling is like a systems language for sure, I'll agree on that.
But where do Go's docs or founders call it a C replacement? gf000 asked where this is mentioned besides marketing, but I don't see it in the marketing either.
But where do Go's docs or founders call it a C replacement? gf000 asked where this is mentioned besides marketing, but I don't see it in the marketing either.
https://web.archive.org/web/20091113154831/http://golang.org...
The main page title *Go: a systems programming language*
It still sports all the low-level stuff too, pointer arithmetic and all.
But then just stay truthful, otherwise C# is also a system PL.
Go's runtime is thin: goroutines, a GC specialized for concurrency, networking, and little else. Java, by contrast, assumes a JVM plus massive stdlibs to handle everything from enterprise apps to big-data, making its platform genuinely "fat" and layered. Other Java-tier languages, C# included, follow the same model.
also has modules now.
Go happened to be attractive for web backends too because it had good greenthreading before Java etc did, and better performance than JS, so it makes sense that they changed the marketing.