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Re:The Go Programming Language, or: Why all C-like languages... by wladimir on Wednesday June 08, 2011 @03:10AM (#2632283)
He wants a language which can (preferably) run on everything from 8 bit to 64 bit CPUs and also run on various embedded OSes.

C# only covers a very small subset. Somewhat more if you include Mono, but I guess that puts it in the same league as Java which he did mention.

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Re:The Go Programming Language, or: Why all C-like languages... by jules on Wednesday June 08, 2011 @05:50AM (#2632559)
Does Go run on 8-bit CPUs? I highly doubt it, given that Go uses its own runtime system including garbage collection.
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Re:The Go Programming Language, or: Why all C-like languages... by dagw on Wednesday June 08, 2011 @07:25AM (#2632695)
Quoting Google's Russel Cox in a mailing list discussion linked to above: "Go requires that int be at least 32 bits and that int64 and uint64 be supplied; practically that means we've given up on 8- and 16-bit CPUs."
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