Google Go: Good For What?
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Someone a little biased here? That scale doesn't even mention concurrency, compilation speed, and duck typing.
In other words: here's some attributes, all of which C++ is "good at." These are the only attributes against which we should measure systems programming.
I think assembly has C++ beat on a lot of those, yet C++ has the top score. Hmmm.