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by heretohelp 5125 days ago
Go is highly inappropriate in embedded environments so your pipedream betrays a naivete to systems programming.
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  * You can turn off the GC.
  * You can compile with gccgo.
  * You can call assembly code from Go.
What is the major hindrance from using Go in embedded environments?
Today's embedded is not tomorrow's embedded.

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