howeman

You mean supersonic airplanes? I don't think hypersonic airplanes have ever been seriously considered for passenger travel.

Go can do unsafe memory access, can't it? See http://golang.org/pkg/unsafe/

Since this is a thread about biases, I'll phrase it like this: Yes, I have used Go, and yes, it does deserve the laurels.

Sampling bias and memory issues aside, you can make an objective poll. "Have you ever eaten oatmeal?"

I was going to go with "Divide the land area of a state by the area of its convex hull. Which is the lowest percentage?"

Operator overloading can certainly do good things. Not going to argue with you there. Though, in the case of units, you can actually go a long way with that (http://play.golang.org/p/iCqB2euJj8). It's not perfect, you have to do some function calls to multiply units of differing type correctly, but you do gain all the proper compile-time safety, and you don't need to do all sorts of method calls.

What are you doing with uncertainty that you can do operator overloading with? You usually want to do Bayes rule with probabilities, but that gets intractable fast.

Sorry, new to posting on HN. How do I get asterisk literals?

It's not quite that bad in Go,

(-b + math.Sqrt(bb - 4ac)) / (2 a)

though if you're using a ton of matrices it could be.

I for one have found Go great for computing. The really quick compile times with static checking plus the composability are great. It definitely depends though; while the native concurrency is great there aren't a lot of easy solutions for non-shared memory computations. (I saw an MPI package at one point, but I haven't tried to use it)

Interesting question at 30:00

I was at a computer camp sometime around '94, and the camp had a printed "Directory of web pages" which was exactly like the yellow pages of the phone book. You would look up a subject, and it had a printed list of urls on that subject.

At this point there are something like 600 open issues, so I think that will be a while.