[TimFogarty]

> Most of our programming is done in C (kernel) or Go (user space). [1]

It's cool that Go is being used in a project like this. For some reason I found that a bit surprising.

[1] http://www.ethos-os.org/background.html

[klibertp]

Why? Go seems like a reasonable choice here: it's much, much safer by default than C and much, much simpler than C++. I mean memory safety, mostly. To me it seems that Go is actually much better suited for things like these than for webapps that some people use it to write.

[pjmlp]

Not only that, it follows the Inferno model, just that Go has a native compiler instead of a VM like Limbo has.

Now if someone would bother to write a bare metal runtime, Go could follow Oberon's footsteps.

[StavrosK]

Agreed, although I think Rust would be even better.