[Info-vax] Safer programming languages (and walking :-) ), was: Re: 8-bit characters

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-11-15, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> On 11/15/2021 1:51 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2021-11-14, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>> On 11/14/2021 5:05 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>>> On 2021-11-14, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>>>>> One really doesn't need a language or compiler to get in the way of what needs
>>>>> to be done.
>>>>
>>>> There is a move towards more safe languages for systems programming.
>>>>
>>>> The current fashion, Rust, has horrible syntax, and I have no confidence
>>>> that code written in it today will still compile on the Rust compilers
>>>> of 5 to 10 years from now, but its use is being driven by the desire
>>>> for using safer languages.
>>>>
>>>> When Rust falls out of fashion, it would be nice if whatever follows
>>>> Rust would address both of those problems.
>>>
>>> Rust seems to be getting some traction.
>>>
>> 
>> Unfortunately so. I like the concepts and desire to move to safer
>> languages but I find the Rust syntax itself ugly. People seem to
>> have forgotten that you write the code once (hopefully!) but then
>> read it many times.
>
> What do you think about Go?
>

It doesn't seem to be a language designed for writing bare metal code
or operating systems in general so I have not really used it.

On a non-technical level, given how Google treats its projects, I would
also worry that suddenly one day Go would no longer be supported by Google.

Simon.

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