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		dgreensp on Sept 26, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Skip – A programming language to skip the things y... I can see why someone who stumbles on Skip would classify it as "systems-ish": General-purpose statically-typed language that compiles to native code with an emphasis on being fast with predictable performance. Go is thought of as a systems language, and it is a garbage-collected language meant for writing servers! How would you describe when to use Skip? It looks really interesting.

the_duke on Sept 27, 2018 [–]

I don't know anyone who considers Go a systems language. That wording was also removed from the Go website a long time ago.

The GC and the heavy weight runtime make it unsuitable in this space.

Skip seems very similar to Swift and Java, with inspiration from Rust wrt mutability.

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