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Just as its sucessor, Inferno.

Which is what ChromeOS and Android are mostly today, leaving C to the kernel, or tiny special purpose libs, and everything else in a managed language, Limbo.

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And how close is Go to Limbo?

Quite close, unsafe package and method declaration come from Oberon-2 (thanks Robert Griesemer), everything else is somehow inspired from Limbo.

https://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/limbo.html

https://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/docs.html

If I remember correctly, they have similar concurrency models. They were both written the same author as well, Rob Pike.

Edit: fixed a typo

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