On 25 November 2014 at 14:08, Greg Reagle <greg.rea...@umbc.edu> wrote: > From http://suckless.org/project_ideas: >> Write the most useful unix userland commands in the new Go language >> created by Google to form a robust base for future Unix-like >> userlands that do not suffer from the vulnerabilities that are >> common in C or C++ code. > > Is anyone still interested in this? I am tempted to dabble in this. > I do not share the love of C that a lot of the suckless programmers > seem to have (though I do share the hatred of C++), and I think that a > higher level language would have a lot of advantages. > > However, it seems pointless to proceed unless the Go version is going > to supplant the C version. Why have the duplication? > > Has anyone taken a stab at this? Any other thoughts? > > Thank you. > > -- > http://www.fastmail.com - The professional email service > >
I don't think anyone here supports Go. I could be wrong but I think Uriel was the only real supporter in the community. I would be more interested in a Rust implementation of coreutils however. It might have already been done
