[matheusmoreira]

> Go binaries on Linux don't need libc (except for NSS, which is glibc-only idiocy).

They don't need NSS either, they just chose to depend on it because getting rid of if was too painful. Everyone's addicted to glibc and nobody enjoys going through the withdrawal symptoms.

> Running a static libc-less binary as init is fun and easy!

It's incredibly fun. I wrote a freestanding Linux Lisp interpreter and my long term goal is to boot Linux into it and bring up the entire system from within the REPL.

https://github.com/lone-lang/lone

I haven't tested it but I bet Linux can already boot into it just fine. I still need to do more work to make it able to bring up the system though. I've implemented endianness independent memory access functions, now I need a binary structure encoder and decoder. That will enable programs to do kernel I/O properly.

What's holding me back right now is continuations. Language still doesn't have flow control. I've been slowly converting my interpreter into an interruptible virtual machine with continuations that can integrate with primitives written in C. Debugging this stuff turned out to be a nightmare.