Re: [go-nuts] Linux distro..based only on GO

2020-12-31 Thread Wendell Hatcher
no On Thu, Dec 31, 2020, 10:26 AM L Godioleskky wrote: > All Linux distros are currently based on several languages (Python, Perl, > C/ C++ etc) as well as tool-type packages like GTK etc > > ... What if, there was a Linux distro based entirely on GO ? > This would greatly reduce the Lin

Re: [go-nuts] Linux distro..based only on GO

2020-12-31 Thread Sebastien Binet
I believe that's what u-root is: - https://github.com/u-root/u-root there are probably others. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Thursday, December 31st, 2020 at 4:40 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > On 12/31/20 3:26 PM, L Godioleskky wrote: > > > It seems to me a Linux distro based entirely o

Re: [go-nuts] Linux distro..based only on GO

2020-12-31 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On 12/31/20 3:26 PM, L Godioleskky wrote: > > It seems to me a Linux distro based entirely on GO would be another major GO > milestone.   > Is this do-able given the current capability of GO? > It would seem not, unless you throw the unix philosophy out of the window completely wrt one tool, one

[go-nuts] Linux distro..based only on GO

2020-12-31 Thread L Godioleskky
All Linux distros are currently based on several languages (Python, Perl, C/ C++ etc) as well as tool-type packages like GTK etc ... What if, there was a Linux distro based entirely on GO ? This would greatly reduce the Linux footprint given the huge number of libraries Linux currently uses to