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By contrast, Go would break constantly on macOS betas. The Mac/iOS kernel interface is libSystem, not direct syscalls. Thankfully, they changed that in Go 1.1
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By contrast, Go would break constantly on macOS betas. The Mac/iOS kernel interface is libSystem, not direct syscalls.
Thankfully, they changed that in Go 1.11 (https://golang.org/doc/go1.11#runtime https://golang.org/doc/go1.11#runtime)
- loeg 8y agoThat's not really contrast; OpenBSD doesn't maintain syscall ABI stability and only supports releases for six months at a time. It's a similar problem.
- favorited 8y agoBy "contrast" I was referring to the statement "Go works reasonably well on openbsd." I don't consider breaking on macOS betas working "reasonably well."
- loeg 8y agoI expect the statement "Go works reasonably well on OpenBSD" is being overly charitable to how frequently it breaks across releases and in reality the experience is likely similar to MacOS betas.