> There was some mention that, during the history of Plan 9, developers
> had difficulty maintaining two different languages on the system.  I
> wonder how much of that difficulty would still apply today.  Although
> the kernel could concievably be translated to a modern compiled
> language, I doubt it could be written in Go.  If Go were used, then,
> there would still have to be two languages/compilers/development
> environments on the system.

although the proof is in the putting, i don't see why a kernel
in principle, can't be written in go, or a slightly restricted subset
of go.

- erik