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> Lennart Poettering and Kay Sievers started the project to develop systemd in 2010. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemd#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wik

> Lennart Poettering and Kay Sievers started the project to develop systemd in 2010. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemd#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemd#History > Go was publicly announced in November 2009,[29] and version 1.0 was released in March 2012. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(programming_language)#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(programming_language)#Hist... The brand-new language that Google just announced last year was probably not considered a serious option here.

loeg 7y ago
It's 2019 and Go still has a much weaker toolchain and infrastructure story than C (which has a 30 year head start).
sanderjd 7y ago
Ha yeah, I didn't mean "they really should have used Go", I just meant, "Go as it exists today may be a good thing to use for this".