The Go programming language

Just got turned onto it - development was started in 2009. It takes your Go code, generates C code and compiles it to run on Linux, Windows or MAC.

I had been looking at LUA for a couple small projects but LUA is a script language much like Java where a Go program will generate executable code - no interpreter needed. Much better performance.

Generating C code means that you can link to the millions of available C libraries out there (high-end math, controlling equipment, vision, audio, etc...)

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