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> Most of our programming is done in C (kernel) or Go (user space). [1] It's cool that Go is being used in a project like this. For some reason I found that a
by TimFogarty 11y ago
> Most of our programming is done in C (kernel) or Go (user space). [1]
It's cool that Go is being used in a project like this. For some reason I found that a bit surprising.
[1] http://www.ethos-os.org/background.html http://www.ethos-os.org/background.html
- klibertp 11y agoWhy? Go seems like a reasonable choice here: it's much, much safer by default than C and much, much simpler than C++. I mean memory safety, mostly. To me it seems that Go is actually much better suited for things like these than for webapps that some people use it to write.