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> since Go was released it seems every other language has tried to copy it

What are you referring to here? I would consider myself quite well-apprised of recent developments in PL theory (and practice) and I am struggling to come up with examples matching this description.

Go's main selling point, at least as of 10 years ago, was its green threading system, and even at the time it was substantially inferior to the green threading systems available in BEAM (Erlang, Elixir) or GHC Haskell



- Java's latest addition of green threads is 100% lifted from Go.

- Rust and Zig's built-in language tooling, including dependency management and an opinionated autoformatter.

- Java's ZGC was an obvious response to Go's GC. There's also the realization that the fewer GC knobs there are to tune the better.

- Possibly Java's quest to add value types as well, not 100% sure on the timeline.

- Broad industry trend towards providing easy cross compilation into static binaries.


> Java's latest addition of green threads is 100% lifted from Go.

Why do you say it was lifted from Go and not from one of the places Go lifted it from, like the two I mentioned?

> Rust and Zig's built-in language tooling

Maybe my memory is failing here, but I don't recall rust ecosystem tooling ever lagging behind Go's. The opposite, if anything.

> Java's ZGC/value types

Can't comment on this one, could be right, although are any of these things clearly sourced from Go? Not disagreeing, I just don't know the history here.

I'm willing to believe that Java is copying from Go, because it's one of the most lumbering languages in popular use today.

> Broad industry trend towards providing easy cross compilation into static binaries.

I'm pretty sure Go does't get credit for this one either. This has been happening independently across many ecosystems as a natural response to increasing containerization and falling storage costs.


> Java's latest addition of green threads is 100% lifted from Go.

or gevent, or many other greenlet implementations across languages, 100%


Deno 2.0 explicitly copied Go in many features, especially with dependencies being referenced via URL, and many of the CLI's commands are inspired by Go such as install, fmt, and test.




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