What makes Go a good "systems language"? Is it because it's fast? What about Java, Scala, Clojure, Haskell, C#, F#, Scheme, Ocaml, etc, which all have performance (speed of execution) similar to Go, are they good "systems languages" as well?
If it's not speed of execution then what makes Go a good systems language? The ability to fiddle bits? A small runtime?
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What makes Go a good "systems language"? Is it because it's fast? What about Java, Scala, Clojure, Haskell, C#, F#, Scheme, Ocaml, etc, which all have performance (speed of execution) similar to Go, are they good "systems languages" as well?
If it's not speed of execution then what makes Go a good systems language? The ability to fiddle bits? A small runtime?
One thing is gochannels and the lightweight concurrency primitives.
Java, Scala, Clojure, Haskell, C#, F#, Scheme (do Rackets Places count?) all have their equivalents.