Go programming highlighter for conTEXT editor

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   Michael Cox says:

   May 10, 2011 at 9:04 pm

   So, what’s the point in Go?

   Or to put it another way, why not just use C++ or Python, whichever is more appropriate?

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   Michael Cox says:

   May 10, 2011 at 9:18 pm

   To answer my own comment –

   “… the point is that Go gives you concurrency, a concurrency specifically suited to modern systems programming. It gives you concurrency that runs close the metal, but it also gives you a new breed of concurrency you won’t find in other languages, including Erlang. And this comes from goroutines.

   Goroutines aren’t threads or lightweight threads. They aren’t callbacks. They’re processes within a single address space that can communicate with each other. Communication is provided by “channels” running between goroutines, and these channels can transmit multiple signals at once. You can use a channel to send any variable, including other channels.”

   Sounds quite Occam-Pi like.

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     Tom Castle says:

     May 11, 2011 at 11:14 pm

     Yes, that’s how I think about it too. It’s Occam-pi crossed with C++. The big advantage is that it is easy to do concurrency, but it has a lot of other nice touches which make it quite appealing, like multiple assignment:

     i, j = j, i // Swap i and j.

     I haven’t really had the opportunity to do much more than dabble with it, but I really like what I have seen so far.

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       Michael Cox says:

       July 7, 2011 at 11:59 pm

       i, j = j, i // Swap i and j.

       Yuck!

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   Rich says:

   June 10, 2011 at 8:54 pm

   To me Go gives you all the benefits of a compiled language (Plus the benefits listed above), with the simplicity of scripting language. http://golang.org

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