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		Dewie on Nov 30, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of C (2013) > Other than C and C++, Go is one of the best languages for controlling memory. Not freeing, of course, but making it very clear where there are allocations, where there are copies, exactly how much memory is being used by any particular data structure. Better than language like Pascal, Ada...?

natefinch on Dec 1, 2014 [–]

"modern popular languages that people actually use to write software"?

Dewie on Dec 1, 2014 | [–]

So you don't know.

natefinch on Dec 2, 2014 | | [–]

It doesn't matter. I'm not going to start a new project at work in either language. But I might conceivably start one in Python, Ruby, go, JavaScript, java, Scala, or another well-used language.

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