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Did it live too far in the future for the time?

• pjmlp 3y ago
  Just as its sucessor, Inferno. Which is what ChromeOS and Android are mostly today, leaving C to the kernel, or tiny special purpose libs, and everything else in a managed language, Limbo.
  • jjtheblunt 3y ago
    And how close is Go to Limbo?
    • afr0ck 3y ago
      If I remember correctly, they have similar concurrency models. They were both written the same author as well, Rob Pike. Edit: fixed a typo
    • pjmlp 3y ago
      Quite close, unsafe package and method declaration come from Oberon-2 (thanks Robert Griesemer), everything else is somehow inspired from Limbo. https://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/limbo.html https://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/limbo.html https://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/docs.html https://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/docs.html