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by kragen 2542 days ago
Griesemer, one of the three original Golang developers, did his dissertation on extending Oberon to, I think, massively parallel computers. Golang has a bunch of constructs that weren't in Plan 9 C; some of the syntactic sugar comes arguably from Oberon, but most of the semantics come from Newsqueak and Alef.
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p_l 2542 days ago
IIRC after Alef went "bust" due to disagreements about GC, its thread semantics got ported to C as libthread, as well as used in Limbo. Then Go kinda resurrected it but with GC?
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pjmlp 2542 days ago
The end of the line from Plan 9, which tends to be ignored, was Inferno, with a GC userspace implemented in Limbo.

Go at its base is a fusion of Limbo and Oberon-2.

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kragen 2541 days ago
Yeah, I should have mentioned Limbo. But it's been so long since I looked at it that I don't remember what its semantics are like.
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pjmlp 2541 days ago
The big difference versus Go, is that Limbo is like Java, in the sense that it favours dynamic linking.

Go nowadays supports dynamic linking, but it isn't the default, the plugin package is quite basic and only supported on Linux and OS X..

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