It seems they are betting high on Dart/flutter and their front end is already written with flutter. The assessment seems to be pretty much the same as for Dart.
Dart won with the ui side, while go was competing with C. On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 at 7:22 PM, Jon Conradt <j...@theconradts.com> wrote: > The Fuchsia Programming Language Policy > <https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/fuchsia/+/refs/heads/master/docs/project/policy/programming_languages.md#Go> > gives > some insight into the experience the Fuchsia team has had with Go, and it > doesn't sound good. > > "The Fuchsia Platform Source Tree has had negative implementation > experience using Go. The system components the Fuchsia project has built in > Go have used more memory and kernel resources than their counterparts (or > replacements) the Fuchsia project has built using C++ or Rust." > > > The Fuchsia Platform Source tree is defined as "The *Fuchsia Platform > Source Tree* is the source code hosted on fuchsia.googlesource.com." > > Their conclusion, and each language has some issues is pretty severe. > > - Go is not approved, with the following exceptions: > - *netstack*. Migrating netstack to another language would require > a significant investment. In the fullness of time, we should migrate > netstack to an approved language. > - All other uses of Go in Fuchsia for production software on the > target device must be migrated to an approved language. > > That's a shame. I was hoping that Fuchsia would provide a way for Go to > have a nice GUI. > > Two of the issues listed as cons include the toolchain producing 'large > binaries' and the related issue of their being a 'substantial runtime.' It > seems to me that both of these issues can be addressed through some of the > techniques used to build tiny Docker images from Go, but I suspect they > would like to have a much simpler route, e.g. a go build flag. > > Jon > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/7778a387-f1f5-4ed0-8453-5b811bac4a6d%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/7778a387-f1f5-4ed0-8453-5b811bac4a6d%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CAHrL7wHqJnDnEVe4%3D--%3DcSW9oA-eYxcbKagESdZHgSkrdLutpA%40mail.gmail.com.
