More Golang adventures

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35 pointsbchjam3 comments

I'd be interested to know in what ways the author thinks Go is superior to erlang.

I'm gonna guess it's syntax and strings for starters. Erlang makes dealing with strings painful in a lot of ways and while the syntax grew on me to the point where I actually like it now I think most people find it to be painful.

Hrrrmmm as a coder who loves both perl and erlang maybe I'm just permanently warped when it comes to syntax :-)

The author replied, mentioning speed, native executables, syntax and simplicity.

I think he has a point, the only thing I'd disagree with is the syntax.. I don't think it's a major problem, considering you get a functional language with powerful pattern-matching.

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