[computer-go] Language

[Nick Apperson]

Are you a troll?

I'd recomend staying away from proprietary languages personally... for
obvious reasons.  I don't think there is any language that doesn't sacrifice
some speed for garbage collection.  But, speed is a relative thing.  If you
don't directly use the heap in C++ (i.e. you use the smart pointer class)
you don't have to worry about garbage collection (except if you make a
circular list).  If you are willing to sacrifice some speed, you could go
with java or c#, but these will be noticably slower, have mediocre support
for interfaceing with C, and are proprietary...  There aren't that many well
supported languages honestly.

You will probably get a few people here recommending "D", but that is most
definately not well supported and it is slower than C or C++ in terms of
writing a go program.  I guess what I'm trying to say is: you are going to
have to give on one of your requirements.  If you are serious about go
programming, learn a real language like C++...  It might take a few years to
learn, but it is the way to go.  If you are just looking to mess around,
fast isn't really as much of a priority.  Even some of the slowest languages
out there are within an order of magnitude of the speed of C++.

I hope that helps.

On Nov 12, 2007 3:41 PM, Chris Fant <chrisfant at gmail.com> wrote:

> I would like some language recommendations.  Requirements:
>   Runs in Linux
>   Has garbage collection
>   Fast
>   Well supported
>   Can interface with MPI (can make C calls)
>
> Hope this doesn't start a war.
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