> In fact I don’t think your average developer should need to understand syscalls to write applications. I'm not saying they should never use a wrapper and mus

> In fact I don’t think your average developer should need to understand syscalls to write applications. I'm not saying they should never use a wrapper and must use opcodes. I'm saying they should understand the difference between a function call and a system call. > GNU is a convention and it’s only officially supported in GNU/Linux Which is where 99.999% of go software runs, coincidentally. > Lastly, I’m not sure why you singled out Go Because the problems I listed usually happen to me only if the command is implemented in go. And since go in itself doesn't have any such limitations, it must be something with the libraries, and of course with people who write those libraries.