From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 13:35:27 -0500 To: lucio@proxima.alt.za, 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <56b9db031b10862765a6e2421b0de73e@proxima.alt.za> References: <56b9db031b10862765a6e2421b0de73e@proxima.alt.za> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Go and 21-bit runes (and a bit of Go status) Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8de3bd54-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mon Dec 2 12:22:09 EST 2013, lucio@proxima.alt.za wrote: > > anyway, what's the argument for not just forking? > > I like Go's portability across platforms. Having a version for Plan 9 > that is inconsistent in this respect is exactly the opposite of what I > want. Nothing stops anyone from forking, but losing the code review > by a community of experts will definitely bother me enormously. i thought the language had become more ossified. as time goes on this is less and less of a concern. i see more performance changes than anything these days. - erik