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Off Topic / Re: C or Go
« on: November 05, 2019, 11:37:55 PM »I mean in the sense that the two languages are used for completely different things in terms of what kind of libraries are available and stuff.I chose the options I did, knowing that, for my use, it wouldn't matter too much either way.
it's like comparing java or C for mobile development, obviously, you would pick java because that's the supported language for android and you literally can't make apks in C
it just depends on what you are doing
it sounds like hes coding for fun/to make some sort of applet. Go would be a lot less finicky to work with cause you dont have stuff like segfaults or manual memory management, unless you specifically choose to use it. go’s also quite fast so its not like c vs java/c#, and the style of programming matches C pretty closely as well.It's a system utility. I actually printed the entire POSIX XCU as a reference for implementation (For this and for future reference). Pretty sure my printer hates me now. Even if I did clean the roller that was causing it to jam.
id say if getting the project complete/done as well as possible is important to you, only use what you’re familiar with. but if you’re doing it to try something new or expand your skillset, then using and learning go would probably be better.
While I am doing it for fun, I also have a specific goal in mind (Call it an experimental concept).
Either way there will be a learning curve for what I'm doing. It'll just be a bit different depending on the language I end up using.
In the end, I will have a lot to learn. And I expect that, either way, I'll come out a better programmer than I was going in.