On 12 July 2013 17:54, Martin Decky <[email protected]> wrote: > Martin D. expressed similar concern during yesterday hangout. IMO the >> choice of language is something that cannot easily be discussed as a >> system-wide directive. Naturally, it makes little sense to rewrite >> existing stuff in a different language, but the nice property of our >> multiserver design is that you can actually write a single new driver in >> Go while leaving everything else untouched. I do not see a reason to >> expressly require every single piece of system to be C, if another >> language serves the purpose well. >> > > My concern is more to keep the entry barriers for any prospective HelenOS > developers low, keeping the external prerequisites low and avoiding an > overly early proliferation of an untested technology (untested in the > context of HelenOS) in our code base. > > Of course. I do not suppose that I myself will create much Go code, seeing as I am still working on just bringing the support in.
On a related note, is there anyone on this mailing list (possibly someone who hasn't found a way to contribute yet) who would be interested in inspecting my code and helping me write/port tests and comments? Second set of eyes could spot any errors I made, and also having another person familiar with the runtime would be great. -- Jirka Z.
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