[_ak]

The Go developers provided their definition, which is something people conveniently ignore whenever they try to be clever about Go not being a systems programming language.

[jjnoakes]

To be fair, if I repurpose a term that is widely used in one way to mean something else, the confusion that ensues is kind of my fault.

[geodel]

So many places I worked had systems engineering department and none of them had anything to do with operating systems/ device drivers. I wonder whether it has to do with OS hackers hanging on internet together and deciding what systems would mean.

[_ak]

There was no repurposing, as the context was exactly explained. Only later, the detractors decontextualized the Go team's original statements.