From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:37:44 -0500 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <<9ab217670911120728q137ac2c1j4f11d9a1d8b2ded5@mail.gmail.com>> References: <<9ab217670911120728q137ac2c1j4f11d9a1d8b2ded5@mail.gmail.com>> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Go Topicbox-Message-UUID: 99db6164-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > > Speaking of VMs (and Limbo) -- I'm wondering if Go is eventually going > > to have it anyway. Any reason not to? > > It can be perceived as a competitor to C if it has a runtime, but not > if it has a VM. So I don't think it would grow one. why do you think the goal is to be perceived as a competitor to c? i don't see that here: http://golang.org/doc/go_faq.html#What_is_the_purpose_of_the_project one thing that's not clear to me from the faq (perhaps it's clarified in robs talk?) and i haven't worked out for myself yet, is if one could write operating system code in go. and if so, what would the language restrictions be. - erik