Google released a new system programming language. I wonder if the names of Robert Pike and Ken Thomsen will make it more appealing to C people 🙂
It’s clearly meant to go head to head with C++. The two most interesting design decisions to me is their take on OO (feels like templates done right and no crappy inteheritance in the ordinary sense) and concurrency which looks a lot like Erlang because it’s CSP. Both of these things make it feel very functional.
So many languages to tinker with and so little time 😉 Oh yeah and it doesn’t run on Windows yet 🙂