[jpc0]

> term “systems program” has always meant network middleware that shuttles around JSON and transforms it.

Who are we that has always defined that term that way. For any systems programmer golang has pretty much not been a solution.

Systems is below layer 4 of the network stack, it is building the network stack in the first place.

[masklinn]

I think your sarcasm detector has gone missing chief.

[bborud]

"Systems program" or "systems programming" is a meaningless term because people use it differently. Discussing what it means is a waste of time. It is better to be specific.

[Joker_vD]

Um, there is user-level implementation of TCP/IPv4+IPv6 stack in Go [0], developed and used by Google as part of its gVisor.

[0] https://github.com/google/netstack