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X-Bullshit: flexible rails property-aware method 

On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 08:29:08PM +1000, Bruce Ellis wrote:
> Go programs run fine on plan9. 

Some go programs might

on specific architectures

until we have to patch the kernel again

etc

> There are many benefits in replacing plan9
> programs with a Go equivalent, e.g. the widespread deployment of algorithms
> that use parallelism. What a faster cleaner world it would be.

Go's GC shit is incompatible with security.  I know a lot of programmers
are excited about the new models of training wheels but there will
always be places where you're going to have to use a real programming
language


sorry about your world

khm