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Re:Linux distros without systemd by amalcon on Monday May 20, 2019 @01:36PM (#19962845)
> Lennart Poettering and Kay Sievers started the project to develop systemd in 2010.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemd#History

> Go was publicly announced in November 2009,[29] and version 1.0 was released in March 2012.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(programming_language)#Hist...

The brand-new language that Google just announced last year was probably not considered a serious option here.

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Re:Linux distros without systemd by loeg on Monday May 20, 2019 @01:48PM (#19962998)
It's 2019 and Go still has a much weaker toolchain and infrastructure story than C (which has a 30 year head start).
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Re:Linux distros without systemd by sanderjd on Monday May 20, 2019 @02:28PM (#19963491)
Ha yeah, I didn't mean "they really should have used Go", I just meant, "Go as it exists today may be a good thing to use for this".
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