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> term “systems program” has always meant network middleware that shuttles around JSON and transforms it. Who are we that has always defined that term that way
by jpc0 4mo ago
> term “systems program” has always meant network middleware that shuttles around JSON and transforms it.
Who are we that has always defined that term that way. For any systems programmer golang has pretty much not been a solution.
Systems is below layer 4 of the network stack, it is building the network stack in the first place.
- masklinn 4mo agoI think your sarcasm detector has gone missing chief.
- Joker_vD 4mo agoUm, there is user-level implementation of TCP/IPv4+IPv6 stack in Go [0], developed and used by Google as part of its gVisor. [0] https://github.com/google/netstack https://github.com/google/netstack
- bborud 4mo ago"Systems program" or "systems programming" is a meaningless term because people use it differently. Discussing what it means is a waste of time. It is better to be specific.