From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <03BB70B9-8ED4-4A39-B19E-2B0481DEBC13@gmail.com> References: <03BB70B9-8ED4-4A39-B19E-2B0481DEBC13@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 10:28:27 -0700 Message-ID: From: Skip Tavakkolian To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=089e013c6e909d996a04dced4fa4 Subject: Re: [9fans] Go for systems programming Topicbox-Message-UUID: 59797cc0-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --089e013c6e909d996a04dced4fa4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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 wrote: > On May 17, 2013, at 11:51, lamg 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 > --089e013c6e909d996a04dced4fa4 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Go's is a great language that makes it easy to write a= pplications of all sizes well, but its greatest benefit to Plan 9 is the pl= ethora of packages that make it possible to deal with the numerous Web stan= dards.=A0



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 poi= nt. You get the same shit in C on Plan 9 as you do Go plus it's more st= able and has better support.
At this point I would say keep using C unless you have some specific need t= o use Go on Plan 9.

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Veety

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