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by pjmlp 4474 days ago
> You wouldn't write an entire browser in Go.

Why not? AOS has one written in Active Oberon, which is quite similar to Go feature wise.

The main differences is that Active Oberon's SYSTEM package is more powerful than Go's unsafe and support for untraced pointers. The later can also be achieved in Go via a mix of syscalls and unsafe.