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Anyone know why no mips32? I'm wondering if those environments are too lean, or going away soon, or both.

• ainar-g 10y ago
  From what I've seen, the answer to questions like "Why is platform X not supported" is "Because nobody works on supporting it". Take IBM as an example. They wanted a Go version for their machines, so they created one, and now it's in the standard Go distribution. If there were people interested in adding MIPS32, it'd be halfway there already.
  • 4ad 10y ago
    This is 100% correct. Ports exist because people were willing to implement them, and are willing to maintain them. A MIPS32 port would be very simple, almost all the MIPS backend is 32/64-size agnostic, and the runtime MIPS64 assembly is pretty portable to MIPS32 too. Someone has to step in and do the work if he is interested.
    • 0xdeadbeefbabe 10y ago
      He is. Any clue where to start? Edit: maybe here? https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/PortingPolicy https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/PortingPolicy
      • ainar-g 10y ago
        Yes, there and mailing the go-dev mailing list [1] if you are serious about it. [1]: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/golang-dev https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/golang-dev