Re: [9fans] Go for systems programming

[Skip Tavakkolian <skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com>]

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Go's is a great language that makes it easy to write applications of all
sizes well, but its greatest benefit to Plan 9 is the plethora of packages
that make it possible to deal with the numerous Web standards.



On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Matthew Veety <mveety@gmail.com> wrote:

> On May 17, 2013, at 11:51, lamg <gort.andres000@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I think it will be nice for Plan9 having such language-compiler, Go
> > has proved to be an improvement over C in its own niche.
> >
>
> In its own niche is the important point here. Just because writing a
> kernel or system utilities can be done in Go doesn't mean it should be. Go
> isn't even totally stable or feature complete on Plan 9 at this point. You
> get the same shit in C on Plan 9 as you do Go plus it's more stable and has
> better support.
> At this point I would say keep using C unless you have some specific need
> to use Go on Plan 9.
>
> --
> Veety
>

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