The problem, honestly, is that they didn't start from scratch: they used a bunch of their Plan 9 tooling to jumpstart it. While I don't quite share Keith's inv

The problem, honestly, is that they didn't start from scratch: they used a bunch of their Plan 9 tooling to jumpstart it. While I don't quite share Keith's invective, I do have a lot of questions that haven't really been answered about why it was done this way. In particular (and a point that Keith only makes in passing), the fact that the Go runtime directly encodes the system call table is a very peculiar design decision that makes the system much, much less portable. And lest anyone point to the many ports: it has been ported to other systems only with great frustration -- which is part of what you're seeing in Keith's rant here...