Apache resigns from the Java Community Process executive committee

Rust sounds interesting, I'll have to check it out.

From everything I've read about Google Go, it really seems like a very practical language designed by people who have a huge amount of experience building actual systems. While reading through the examples, I had to smile, because they fixed a lot of my biggest gripes with C and C++. These are the language features that every practical programmer has stubbed his toe on, and hated ever after.

> It has more emphasis on safety and given it's explicit mutability, should
> be more optimizable

Speaking as someone who wrote a (toy) compiler once, the big problem in optimizing C/C++ is the "aliasing problem"-- the difficulty of determining if a location in memory has been modified since it was last fetched from memory.

From what I've read, the general idea in Go (and presumably Rust as well) is "don't communicate by sharing memory, share memory by communicating." If you're just passing objects by value on channels, I don't think that presents the same difficulties to the optimizer. Go does have pointers, of course, but I don't think that they get used nearly as much as in C/C++. Anyway, I'm still learning about this!