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Re:Opossum: Cross-platform web browser written in Golang, op... by pjmlp on Monday February 20, 2023 @11:43AM (#34869819)
Indeed, we need more such projects to clean our industry from non believers.

Alef for Plan 9 was going to be GC based, and even though it went in another way, Inferno and Limbo clearly fix that error.

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Re:Opossum: Cross-platform web browser written in Golang, op... by bitwize on Monday February 20, 2023 @12:39PM (#34870501)
Go itself is pretty much Alef 2.0
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Re:Opossum: Cross-platform web browser written in Golang, op... by pjmlp on Monday February 20, 2023 @12:59PM (#34870728)
It could have kept dynamic loading and pick types from Limbo, though.
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Re:Opossum: Cross-platform web browser written in Golang, op... by butterisgood on Monday February 20, 2023 @02:39PM (#34871952)
https://pkg.go.dev/plugin but not for all platforms.
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Re:Opossum: Cross-platform web browser written in Golang, op... by pjmlp on Monday February 20, 2023 @02:56PM (#34872137)
It is not the same.

Not only it doesn't work in all platforms, they already planned to drop it once, and uses low level dlopen like API.

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