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>So it's not constrained to operating systems but it's pretty much constrained to operating systems. You can see how I'm less than convinced. It's just that operating systems is not just the kernel. The POSIX userland of tools (ls, cat, ps, etc) are also systems programming, and essential part of an OS. And of course device drivers (which they even get linked or loaded directly to the kernel). Postgres, Varnish, redis, or Apache on the other hand, or some ad-hoc enterprise backend service, is not "systems programming". >* By your strange definition, writing an NFS server would not be 'systems programming' because for some reason networking is excluded.* Never said that "networking is exclude". The TCP/IP stack is very much systems programming, as an example. And NFS would be too, as it's still a kind of filesystem (and thus working with the kernel and OS at a low level), and an essential part of a POSIX system. Some load balancer for MySQL, on the other hand (one of Go's touted examples), not that much. |