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This makes me love Go even more.

Gotta appreciate the things that the compiler takes care of for me.

While I wish the stop-the-world GC pause were more predictable and took less time, I’ll gladly pay the cost for safety.

Zig seems interesting, too. It feels like a better C, and I’m closely following its development as it marches toward 1.0.



Stop-the-world GC pause can never work for a safety critical system (motor controller, elevator system). That pause could mean a crushed human appendage or worse.


I don’t work in a safety critical system. If it works for Cockroach DB, it works for my use case. It’s a tradeoff I make to be able to use a nicer and safer language.


They I don't see what you point was since these rules are specifically for safety critical systems written in C.




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