Go 1.5 is out: Say goodbye to C

[Kent Sharkey]

Jaxenter[^]:

Google’s up and coming programming language Go is now available at version 1.5, with one very noticeable change – no more C.

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[Ron Anders]

they stab it with their steely knives... - you know the rest.

[Marc Clifton]

Until they support a visual debugger that isn't Eclipse, I won't touch the language. Marc

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[Cristian Amarie]

Who used Go for C anyways? Go is just another language to use when you are afraid of pointers. I suppose they have some form of pinvoke anyways :D

[Kevin McFarlane]

Headline is misleading. It just means Go compiler/runtime is now written in Go instead of C, not that Go is a C killer. Go may be intended as that but that's not what the article is about.

Kevin

[Kevin McFarlane]

Maybe they'll move to IntelliJ since that's what they now use for Android development.

Kevin

[Cristian Amarie]

I didn't imagine that anyways. But point taken - the title is at least misleading.

[Kevin McFarlane]

Lol, yes. So many tech titles are misleading aren't they? Often just to grab our attention I think. :)

Kevin

[Cristian Amarie]

Shame on me, I guess, to took the bait.

[PIEBALDconsult]

Kevin McFarlane wrote:

is now written in Go instead of C

It probably shouldn't have been released to the wild until they had done that; self-hosting is a sign of a "real" language.