[cshenton]

So I'm guessing it's the runtime itself that expects to interact with things like an OS scheduler. Does that mean if you attempted to write an OS in Go, you'd basically have to do it without many of the features of the runtime (that provide the abstractions that are useful for application progamming?). That would be pretty crummy.

[JoshTriplett]

> Does that mean if you attempted to write an OS in Go, you'd basically have to do it without many of the features of the runtime (that provide the abstractions that are useful for application progamming?). That would be pretty crummy.

You'd have to write the lowest-level of it in a language that wasn't Go. That language could be C, or Rust, or a pseudo-Go that didn't have many of the features people expect (including garbage collection and goroutines).