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Go Systems Programming
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Go Systems Programming

by Mihalis Tsoukalos
September 2017
Intermediate to advanced
466 pages
9h 33m
English
Packt Publishing
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Comparing Go to other programming languages

Go is not perfect, but neither are the rest of the programming languages. This section will briefly discuss other programming languages and compare them to Go in order to give you a better understanding of the choices you have. So, the list of programming languages that can be compared to Go includes:

  • C: C is the most popular programming language for developing systems software because the portable part of each Unix operating system is written in C. However, it has some critical drawbacks, including the fact that C pointers, which are great and fast, can lead to difficult-to-detect bugs and memory leaks. Additionally, C does not offer garbage collection; back when C was created, garbage collection ...
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ISBN: 9781787125643