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		ootachi on March 28, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Go version 1 is released Nonsense. You would hate Android written in Go, because of the GC pauses. Dalvik has a concurrent garbage collector; Go has a stop-the-world one.

drivebyacct2 on March 28, 2012 [–]

Only because that's all that's been implemented. They're well aware of GC and compiler optimizations being a target for future versions of Go.

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