• dog_eater@lemmy.worldOPM
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    Its simple, memory safe, and capable of outperforming other low level languages in benchmark tests.

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        I’m not a leet programmer: I thought that Go was only supposed to supplement C, not C++

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          go is garbage collected. It can’t do what c can. It’s simple like c but is not a good replacement for c. golang typically takes things java and python usually do. I think zig has a garbage collector too.