Steve Simon <st...@quintile.net> once said: > Whne I looked at Go - maybe 2 years ago, I could not see why > plan9 would not adopt go's 8c/8l and libbio. > > obviously others disagree as they have not been back-ported, > but why not? - I'am not trolling, genuine question.
We couldn't adopt the Go ?[acl] toolchain wholesale because of incompatible Go-specific changes; e.g., disallowing variadic C functions without a #pragma annotation, a different symtab/pclntab format, etc. It would take a fair bit of work to make everything (including libmach) backwards-compatible. Anthony
