Go's is a great language that makes it easy to write applications of all sizes well, but its greatest benefit to Plan 9 is the plethora of packages that make it possible to deal with the numerous Web standards.
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Matthew Veety <mve...@gmail.com> wrote: > On May 17, 2013, at 11:51, lamg <gort.andres...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I think it will be nice for Plan9 having such language-compiler, Go > > has proved to be an improvement over C in its own niche. > > > > In its own niche is the important point here. Just because writing a > kernel or system utilities can be done in Go doesn't mean it should be. Go > isn't even totally stable or feature complete on Plan 9 at this point. You > get the same shit in C on Plan 9 as you do Go plus it's more stable and has > better support. > At this point I would say keep using C unless you have some specific need > to use Go on Plan 9. > > -- > Veety >
