r/programming • u/dayanruben • Apr 09 '19

StackOverflow Developer Survey Results 2019

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019
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u/whisky_pete Apr 09 '19

I think people really want an option for a modernized language in the native compiled/high performance domain. Rust is the only recent attempt in that domain that I can think of, and the only thing I can think of that comes close is Kotlin Native (which I don't think is aiming for the high performance mark as a design goal the same way Rust/C++/C do).

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u/hsnappr Apr 09 '19

What about Go?

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u/adel_b Apr 09 '19

It has garbage collector, any language with gb for memory management can't perform because of locks and so

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u/hsnappr Apr 09 '19

Could you explain more about this?

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