They made a political decision, Not supporting GO in the new OS or a GO GUI is a show stopper.
After Unladen Swallow and others https://killedbygoogle.com/ I am, No longer interested in GO On Tuesday, February 25, 2020 at 9:22:11 AM UTC-8, Jon Conradt wrote: > > The Fuchsia Programming Language Policy > <https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/fuchsia/+/refs/heads/master/docs/project/policy/programming_languages.md#Go> > gives > some insight into the experience the Fuchsia team has had with Go, and it > doesn't sound good. > > "The Fuchsia Platform Source Tree has had negative implementation > experience using Go. The system components the Fuchsia project has built in > Go have used more memory and kernel resources than their counterparts (or > replacements) the Fuchsia project has built using C++ or Rust." > > > The Fuchsia Platform Source tree is defined as "The *Fuchsia Platform > Source Tree* is the source code hosted on fuchsia.googlesource.com." > > Their conclusion, and each language has some issues is pretty severe. > > - Go is not approved, with the following exceptions: > - *netstack*. Migrating netstack to another language would require > a significant investment. In the fullness of time, we should migrate > netstack to an approved language. > - All other uses of Go in Fuchsia for production software on the > target device must be migrated to an approved language. > > That's a shame. I was hoping that Fuchsia would provide a way for Go to > have a nice GUI. > > Two of the issues listed as cons include the toolchain producing 'large > binaries' and the related issue of their being a 'substantial runtime.' It > seems to me that both of these issues can be addressed through some of the > techniques used to build tiny Docker images from Go, but I suspect they > would like to have a much simpler route, e.g. a go build flag. > > Jon > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/8cab09c2-58a0-4fef-95bf-f584a663e9ae%40googlegroups.com.
