3 ms·

Does Go only support that crazy Plan 9 (amd64) assembler syntax that nobody uses anywhere?

• vanderZwan 14y ago
  Well, since two of the original three developers (Pike and Thompson) were part of the Plan 9 team, it makes perfect sense that they based the compilers on the Plan 9 ones.
  • cpeterso 14y ago
    I see recent commits in Go's mercurial history to fix bugs on Plan 9. Is anyone at Google actually using Plan 9 to develop Go? Or is building for Plan 9 just a sanity test for maintaining cross platform code? Wikipedia says the last "stable" release of Plan 9 was in 2002, but there seem to be a number of recent forks.
    • burntsushi 14y ago
      There are people that don't work at Google who contribute to Go. It's an open source project.
    • 4ad 14y ago
      Plan 9 is on a rolling release since 2002.