While glancing over the tutorial I saw that they stole one syntactic feature from Perl 6 (or maybe somewhere else, not quite sure ;-): no need for parenthesis around the condition in if statements, or around the statement list in for statements.

I also find the idea quite intriguing to use an operator := which automatically declares the variable on the LHS; I'm curious how that will turn out in practice.

But I guess the real killer app will be the concurrency support, and I'm neither qualified to comment on that, nor did I actually try it. If it provides Erlang-like good concurrency in an imperative programming language, it has a bright future ahead.

However the lack of exceptions make me think of the auld C style return type checking, which is always forgotten somewhere, and surely not state of the art for a modern programming language.

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In reply to Re: Thoughts on "Go"? by moritz
in thread Thoughts on "Go"? by punkish

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