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>You get out of having to write your own GC

You also don't have the ability to write a GC-less language, because there is no practical way to write non-GCed Go code.

>you can incorporate a few nice concurrency features with little effort

You also can't implement any custom OS-level concurrency features.



You also don't have the ability to write a GC-less language, because there is no practical way to write non-GCed Go code.

True, so you probably don't want to do that.

You also can't implement any custom OS-level concurrency features.

True. But for "journeyman" level language implementation, the toolset is quite good.




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