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by loup-vaillant 12 days ago
First, I’m not familiar with the Go ecosystem. I have never written a single line of Go, and I learned in this thread that there was more than one compiler. Second, please don’t accuse me of engaging in bad faith. I’m not.

My question was genuine. What triggered it is when you wrote "in practice". I myself draw a sharp distinction between a language and its implementation, but the moment "in practice" gets thrown in, I have to assume we’re talking about existing implementations only. And I have to say, as unfamiliar as I am with the Go ecosystem, the existence of a compiler (somewhat?) tailored to embedded use, is deeply surprising to me.