> There was some mention that, during the history of Plan 9, developers > had difficulty maintaining two different languages on the system. I > wonder how much of that difficulty would still apply today. Although > the kernel could concievably be translated to a modern compiled > language, I doubt it could be written in Go. If Go were used, then, > there would still have to be two languages/compilers/development > environments on the system.
although the proof is in the putting, i don't see why a kernel in principle, can't be written in go, or a slightly restricted subset of go. - erik
