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**Guest** · 28 January 2016, 05:20 AM

Originally posted by phoronix View Post

Phoronix: First Release Candidate Arrives For Go 1.6

The first release candidate is now available for the Go 1.6 programming language...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...6-RC1-Released

https://divan.github.io/posts/go_concurrency_visualize/ - a very nice visualization of concurrency in Go programs.

**waxhead** · 28 January 2016, 01:16 PM

As programming languages come and Go ... C remains

(I could not resist)

**busukxuan** · 29 January 2016, 05:58 AM

Originally posted by waxhead View Post

As programming languages come and Go ... C remains

(I could not resist)

I feel like Go is a higher level version of C (not trying to say which is better though), what do you think?

**Guest** · 29 January 2016, 06:49 AM

Originally posted by busukxuan View Post

I feel like Go is a higher level version of C (not trying to say which is better though), what do you think?

In my opinion, the short answer is: yes. An exhaustive answer (exhaustive from a certain point of view) would probably create a book.

**waxhead** · 01 February 2016, 06:04 PM

Originally posted by busukxuan View Post

I feel like Go is a higher level version of C (not trying to say which is better though), what do you think?

I am just thinking that in a couple of decades or so C is still there

First Release Candidate Arrives For Go 1.6