Yo Hal! On Sat, 07 Jun 2025 13:47:25 -0700 Hal Murray via devel <devel@ntpsec.org> wrote:
> Gary said:
> > Yes. Many.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Years ago, we were considering converting everything to Go. I don't
> remember any mention of systems that don't support Go. Did I miss
> (or forget) something?
Depends on what you mean "support". Google has said they do not "support"
got for anything, except their internal projects. They seem to have lost
interest in go and a doing much more in Rust now.
Here is the list of Go targets:
$ go tool dist list
aix/ppc64
android/386
android/amd64
android/arm
android/arm64
darwin/amd64
darwin/arm64
dragonfly/amd64
freebsd/386
freebsd/amd64
freebsd/arm
freebsd/arm64
freebsd/riscv64
illumos/amd64
ios/amd64
ios/arm64
js/wasm
linux/386
linux/amd64
linux/arm
linux/arm64
linux/loong64
linux/mips
linux/mips64
linux/mips64le
linux/mipsle
linux/ppc64
linux/ppc64le
linux/riscv64
linux/s390x
netbsd/386
netbsd/amd64
netbsd/arm
netbsd/arm64
openbsd/386
openbsd/amd64
openbsd/arm
openbsd/arm64
openbsd/ppc64
openbsd/riscv64
plan9/386
plan9/amd64
plan9/arm
solaris/amd64
wasip1/wasm
windows/386
windows/amd64
windows/arm64
Compare that to the list of clang target CPUS:
$ llc --version
LLVM (http://llvm.org/):
LLVM version 20.1.6
Optimized build.
Default target: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Host CPU: znver2
Registered Targets:
aarch64 - AArch64 (little endian)
aarch64_32 - AArch64 (little endian ILP32)
aarch64_be - AArch64 (big endian)
amdgcn - AMD GCN GPUs
arm - ARM
arm64 - ARM64 (little endian)
arm64_32 - ARM64 (little endian ILP32)
armeb - ARM (big endian)
avr - Atmel AVR Microcontroller
bpf - BPF (host endian)
bpfeb - BPF (big endian)
bpfel - BPF (little endian)
hexagon - Hexagon
lanai - Lanai
loongarch32 - 32-bit LoongArch
loongarch64 - 64-bit LoongArch
mips - MIPS (32-bit big endian)
mips64 - MIPS (64-bit big endian)
mips64el - MIPS (64-bit little endian)
mipsel - MIPS (32-bit little endian)
msp430 - MSP430 [experimental]
nvptx - NVIDIA PTX 32-bit
nvptx64 - NVIDIA PTX 64-bit
ppc32 - PowerPC 32
ppc32le - PowerPC 32 LE
ppc64 - PowerPC 64
ppc64le - PowerPC 64 LE
r600 - AMD GPUs HD2XXX-HD6XXX
riscv32 - 32-bit RISC-V
riscv64 - 64-bit RISC-V
sparc - Sparc
sparcel - Sparc LE
sparcv9 - Sparc V9
systemz - SystemZ
thumb - Thumb
thumbeb - Thumb (big endian)
ve - VE
wasm32 - WebAssembly 32-bit
wasm64 - WebAssembly 64-bit
x86 - 32-bit X86: Pentium-Pro and above
x86-64 - 64-bit X86: EM64T and AMD64
xcore - XCore
> Any suggestions?
Wait another decade.
> Assuming we get things converted to Go, do we just put the old code
> on standby? Fix security bugs for a while.
Great way to kill the project.
RGDS
GARY
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