alt Hacker NewsI wouldn't call Go a 'server side' language. The Go compiler is written in Go, for example! Cross compilation and (relatively) small binaries make it super easy for distribution. Syntax sugar is a fair point though, it doesn't lend itself to functional-y pattern matching.
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Well now I've got to go check out the go compiler! That sounds really interesting. I was mainly referring to go having a lot more developed concurrency features, which while they're great I didn't really want to use them for my toy language, it seemed like I was throwing away a lot of what makes golang great just because of the nature of my project.
The rest of the golang ecosystem I found really nice actually, and imo it had a really great set of tools for reading/writing to files - and also I like that everything is apart of the go binary, it certainly is easier than juggling between opam and dune (used for OCaml for example).
> The Go compiler is written in Go, for example!
Do you know how they avoid the GC in the Go implementation of the Go compiler? If I understand correctly they need to implement the Go garbage collector in their Go implementation of the Go compiler. But Go already has a garbage collector. So how do they avoid invoking Go's garbage collector so that they can implement the garbage collector of the Go language they are implementing?
Not sure if I'm making sense but I'd like to know more about this from those who understand this more than I do.