Questions about Go, a light-weight statically typed language with garbage collection. It is sponsored by Google. For more information, see http://golang.org/.
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Choosing a new programming language to learn [on hold]
I'm a Microsoft Stack(ASP.NET, C#) developer. Mainly, I develop server side software, windows services, restful apis etc. My client side interaction is really really low. So aside from C# I want to ...
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golang channel in C# [migrated]
I have tried to mimic golang channels in C#; and it's performance is pretty good compared to golang itself. On may machine, each channel operation of golang takes ~75 nano-sec and each Chan<T> ...
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Could ChromiumOS be re-written in Go from the ground up? [closed]
As Go seems able to performance match C and with Google obviously biased towards Go, I feel that it would be great way for Go to gain more traction.
The way ChromiumOS/Chrome has jumped from an ...
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What do goroutines, Ruby Fibers, etc. look like to the OS/Kernel?
In process concurrency and thread concurrency it's quite obvious how the kernel sees these as they map directly to real things that the kernel manages. When it comes to Golang goroutines and Ruby ...
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Why is there a “new” keyword in Go?
I'm still puzzled as why we have new in Go.
&Thing{} is as clear and concise as new(Thing) to Go coders and it uses only constructs you often use elsewhere. It's also more extensible as you might ...
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Erlang and Go concurrent programming, objective differences between CSP and Actors?
I was looking into concurrent programming in Erlang and Go programming languages. As per my finding they are used Actor model and CSP respectively.
But still I am confused with what are the objective ...
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“A line comment acts like a newline”
I'm reading the Go language specification. The section on comments states:
Line comments start with the character sequence // and stop at the end of the line. A line comment acts like a newline.
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What are the prerequisites for learning Go
I am considering learning Go. As far as I know about it, it's a systems language geared toward parallel programming. (correct me if I'm wrong)
Should I have a very good understanding of C in order ...
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How does Go improve productivity with “implicit” interfaces, and how does that compare with C#'s notion of Extension Methods?
In the Go Language Tutorial, they explain how interfaces work:
Go does not have classes. However, you can define methods on struct types. The method receiver appears in its own argument list ...
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Performance considerations when using Go for my project
I'm looking at using Go (aka golang) for a project (a SQL database, but that mostly doesn't matter here) where performance is critical, but under low load the primary bottleneck will be I/O to disk. ...
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clojure/erlang/go for high volume server
I have a project that will need to handle 1000s of requests a second with a decent amount of processing for each. For the most part, the processing will be done on a list of items, basically ...
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Why does Go have a special case for abs(0)
I was playing around with Go, and found this particular interesting code for the abs function in the math package:
http://golang.org/src/pkg/math/abs.go
14 func abs(x float64) float64 {
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What can Go chan do that a list cannot?
I want to know in which situation Go chan makes code much simpler than using list or queue or array that is usually available in all languages.
As it was stated by Rob Pike in one of his speeches ...
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When would you need “hundreds of thousands” of threads?
Erlang, Go, and Rust all claim in one way or another that they support concurrent programming with cheap "threads"/coroutines. The Go FAQ states:
It is practical to create hundreds of thousands ...
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Math library methods in Google's Go Programming Language
I have been programming in google Golang and have been enjoying it due to its brevity but I find it surprising that almost all its Math standard library methods are for the floating point type. Is ...
