[RFC] Replace Java with Go in default languages

[Alec Teal]

Could we change the subject for responses to this strand of the debate?

Alec

On 20/11/13 20:27, Basile Starynkevitch wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-11-20 at 11:45 -0800, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Alec Teal <a.teal@warwick.ac.uk> wrote:
>>> It was said before (when this first started) that Go wasn't ready. Another
>>> language that looks cool but has yet to mature.
>> Side issue clarification.  I believe that Go is ready for any use one
>> might care to put it to.  The reasons I believe it is not suitable as
>> a default-enabled language for GCC have to do with licensing and
>> source code issues, not with the language or the compiler support for
>> it.
> Thanks for the point. Ian, could you explain more what you mean by
> "source code issues". From my non-native English speaker point of view,
> I'm understanding "software quality" (i.e. bugs) which is not what you
> seems to mean.
>
> BTW, I am rather in favor of Go becoming more used and perhaps
> default-enabled.... (just because I like the language and I trust your
> work on Go in GCC; the one major thing I miss in Go is dynamic loading à 
> la dlopen).
>
> Regards.
>