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Karrot_Kream on April 30, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Experience Report: 6 months of Go

I think having the Go runtime be specific to Go is what makes it such an effective runtime.

omginternets on April 30, 2022 [–]

Why?

And more to the point: binding an alternate syntax to the runtime wouldn't make it any less specific to Go.

Karrot_Kream on April 30, 2022 | [–]

A lot of Go's GC is tied up in the semantics of Go. An alternate syntax would indeed be an interesting idea.

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