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Go does things very differently. They will probably roll their own drivers at some point and run directly on Xen or KVM. The designers of Go have a lot of problems with evolution of Unix in general. So it is understandable that they don't want to get involved with libc clusterfluck.

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Yeah but that means if you want to fix things at the libc level, you necessarily skip Go. OpenBSD had/has this problem.

But more broadly, I think the policy is less "Unix took a wrong turn" and more that goroutines make C/Go interop painful.

But then, Go is the lurching zombie of Plan 9. :-)

Inferno.

Even if it was "unix took a wrong turn" there wouldn't be any project on earth more qualified to make that claim. I mean, it's Rob Pike & Co. and if you look at their Git repo the first several commits are by Brian Kernighan. They're former Bell Labs employees who worked on things like UNIX.

And even with all that experience they still came up with a terrible programming language.

If I were Google, go should be shut down, and the Plan 9 crowd reassigned to Fuschia and forced to only write in languages outside their puny comfort zone like Rust.

The fact that everyone forgets about Limbo and Inferno, and keeps talking about Plan 9, proves how successful Go would have been with another employer.

Huh? I think Rob Pike et al. suck at language design, period, but had some decent ideas for systems. I think Go would suck with any employer, but they could do better work on non-programming language things.

Nope, as proven with Limbo.

Go 1.0 is basically Limbo with a bit of Oberon-2 syntax.

Outside the chocolate factory, it would have been just as successful, to the point that everyone forgets about Inferno and only talks about Plan 9.

> The designers of Go have a lot of problems with evolution of Unix in general.

Well, they invented Unix, and later its improved successor (Plan 9).

And then improved Plan 9, using God's predecessor.

They invented UNIX, but then BSD and GNU took over add added all the cruft and ruined the experience. So they started Plan 9.

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