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> Systems C programmers

I don't know many (TBH none) c programmers that likes or actually uses go. The thing is that as for c++ if you are still writing in c is just for few reasons: portability (in terms of embedding your library) and speed. Especially the former seems very important.

EDIT: I know => I know personally or I follow.

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Does Ken count as a Systems C programmer?

Most of the systems C programmers I know, who admittedly work on large distributed systems, like Go.

Edited, I meant: who I know or I follow.

> I don't know many (TBH none) c programmers that likes or actually uses go.

I'll give you two, Rob Pike and Ken Thompson. Ha! :)

I prefer to work in C over C++ (did both at different jobs), mostly does C but where I don't care just that much about performance (specific allocations of memory and the like) than I'm likely to prefer Go over C++. It's far nicer and I really like the goroutines and channels concept. I like it that much that I copied it back to C in-fact.

I'm a 30+ year Systems C programmer who is really enjoying Go.

Why do people make generalizations like this, Language wars are so much fun but we really do waste a lot of time on them.

The main reason why I used C over C++ was C's simplicity (actually C++'s complexity).

pleased to make your acquaintance.

I'm a "C programmer" that loves working in Go.

Nice to meet you.

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