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Re:GERT: Run Go on Bare Metal ARMv7 by gok on Monday June 19, 2017 @07:59PM (#14591283)
I agree with you that there's many device in that range, but why are they not well served by using an operating system? When is a device large enough to run the whole Go runtime but too small for (say) Linux?
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Re:GERT: Run Go on Bare Metal ARMv7 by zzalpha on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @12:06AM (#14592129)
Compared to a complete Linux kernel, the Go runtime is pretty tiny.

Buy to your point there is no magic answer. The question is rather: when is the capabilities of a full OS kernel like Linux worth the resources needed to run it? And the answer is ultimately: it depends.

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