On: Rust: A Critical Retrospective

[johndoe0815]

Go has been used to implement OS kernel code, e.g. in the Biscuit OS from MIT: https://github.com/mit-pdos/biscuit

Of course, the garbage collector did not exactly make it easier - but it's an interesting piece of software.

[mindcrime → johndoe0815]

Go has been used to implement OS kernel code,

but it's an interesting piece of software.

Agreed. And I didn't mean to imply that it's impossible to use Go that way, but I think it's fair to say that it's less common and perhaps even less desirable to do that.

OTOH, people have written (at least parts of) Operating Systems in Java[1] even, so never say never...

[1]: https://github.com/jnode/jnode

[fulafel → johndoe0815]

There have been lots of OS written in languages that support GC. And indeed mainstream operating systems use GC quite a lot for selected objects.